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

[Mark Hatle]

On 6/3/11 1:10 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
> 
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> On 05/31/2011 03:26 PM, Scott Garman wrote:

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> o In general I find the default UI to be exceedingly noisy. It feels
>   very much like what I would write for something I was actively
>   developing - ie, something I expect to break a lot! I don't think
>   that's the sort of impression we want users to have while building a
>   release (for example).

I have heard similar comments from others as well.

>   I'd prefer if what we currently get today was the output of -D. The
>   current output could instead be something a lot more in the vein of
>   what we see with recipe parsing. Perhaps one line per
>   BB_NUMBER_TREADS (N), maybe something like:
> 
>   Task 2300/4600 [####################                    ]
>     0: linux-yocto: do_compile
>     1: matchbox: do_fetch
>     ...
>     N: dbus: do_configure
> 
>   It would of course update the current lines and not scroll. Most of
>   the time, this would be plenty information. Upon failure we stop
>   updating the "UI" and print something like:

Even if it did scroll, somehow limiting the messages being printed would be
beneficial.  It's been suggested to me simply one (or two) messages per step MAX.

Running linux-yocto do_compile
Running matchbox do_fetch
...

I believe currently we have around 3-5 messages per step, and it's still too
noisy -- unless you need to debug something.

>   ERROR: An unhandled exception occured while processing
>          linux-yocto: do_fetch
> 
>          Exception: No such file or directory.
> 
>          Run with -D for a more detailed error report or consult the
>          appropriate log file:
> 
>          $(pwd)/tmp/work/$machine/linux-yocto-$HASH-$HASH \
>          /temp/log.do_fetch.$PID
> 
>   Or something along those lines.
> 
> Thanks for collecting these Scott, great idea!
>