[bitbake-devel] bitbake debugging...

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Michael,

On Wednesday 13 August 2014 14:06:11 info at sd-kyber.com wrote:
> Is there any document, suggestion what is the best practice to trace / step
> through the bitbake  execution?
> 
> For example, is it possible to put ‘the break point’  at the moment the
> fetcher module I’m specifying is called? If that possible — and I think it
> is - what python environments are common to be used? ActiveSense, something
> else?
> 
> Is there any document describing how to set such a ‘bitbake development’
> environment?

I think the answer is that we don't really have such a method, at least not 
that BitBake developers themselves use. Speaking for myself, I usually just 
add print / bb.warn() statements into the code where I need to see the value 
of something or know when that part of the code is executed. It's definitely 
crude, but it works.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre