[bitbake-devel] bitbake clean / cleanall / cleansstate not working

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 09:42 +0000, Purcareata Bogdan-B43198 wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using Yocto with BB_VERSION = "1.18.0" and the commands in the subject do not seem to work - they don't do anything. The image has the packages built.
> 
> $ bitbake -c cleanall gcc
> [ ... ]
> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 3 tasks of which 0 didn't need to be rerun and all succeeded.
> 
> $ bitbake -c clean gcc
> [ ... ]
> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 1 tasks of which 0 didn't need to be rerun and all succeeded.
> 
> $ bitbake -c cleansstate gcc
> [ ... ]
> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 2 tasks of which 0 didn't need to be rerun and all succeeded.
> 
> The information in [ ... ] is not really relevant. I just wanted to
> give the output message. I know the error description is vague, but so
> is this behavior. I don't know what it could be further related to.

What exactly are you trying to clean? The above messages say it ran 1, 2
or 3 tasks and they all succeeded.

Keep in mind there are several "gcc" components such as gcc-cross,
gcc-cross-initial and so on. "gcc" is the one used on target.

Cheers,

Richard