[OE-core] Tell me your build error message annoyances!

[mark gross]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 03:26:21PM -0700, Scott Garman wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> I'd like to collect some feedback on error messages while building
> that you find confusing/annoying/unhelpful. I'm going to be working
> on trying to improve the situation and would like to hear from you
> about what could be more helpful.


You can make SkipPackage print out what recipes is getting skipped!  I
blew a bunch of time trying to build qemu64 minimal target before I
found that you need the meta-intel layer such that grub 2 would be
provided.  Recipes-bsp has grub 0.97 but, it raises a SkipPackage
exception if the target is not 32 bit.

bitbake -DDD grub would report NoProvider: grub  Yet show the
grub_0.97.bb was indeed getting processed.

--mark



> 
> I'm starting to track some of these situations with the following bugs:
> 
> http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542
> 
> http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1127
> 
> http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1128
> 
> I can't promise to fix everything you come up with, but I'd like to
> try to make a dent in some of these issues and improve the usability
> of our build system.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott
> 
> -- 
> Scott Garman
> Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project
> Intel Open Source Technology Center
> 
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