[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] lib/bb/utils: show subprocess output in stack traces
Ross Burton
ross.burton at intel.com
Tue Jul 26 14:15:05 UTC 2016
If better_exec() throws a subprocess.CalledProcessError then show the output to
the user as it likely contains useful information for solving the problem.
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
---
bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
index 995089a..ce52960 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
@@ -375,6 +375,12 @@ def _print_exception(t, value, tb, realfile, text, context):
level = level + 1
error.append("Exception: %s" % ''.join(exception))
+
+ # If the exception is from spwaning a task, let's be helpful and display
+ # the output (which hopefully includes stderr).
+ if isinstance(value, subprocess.CalledProcessError):
+ error.append("Subprocess output:")
+ error.append(value.output.decode("utf-8", errors="ignore"))
finally:
logger.error("\n".join(error))
--
2.8.1
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