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

[Darren Hart]

On 06/03/2011 08:47 AM, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 09:22 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
>>> I believe currently we have around 3-5 messages per step, and it's still too
>>> noisy -- unless you need to debug something.
>>
>> Correct.  Right now, the output looks like:
>>
>> NOTE: Running task 613 of 728 (ID: 190, virtual:native:/home/pb/oe/oe-core/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux_2.19.1.bb, do_install)
>> NOTE: package util-linux-native-2.19.1-r0: task do_install: Started
>> NOTE: package util-linux-native-2.19.1-r0: task do_install: Succeeded
>> NOTE: Running task 614 of 728 (ID: 191, virtual:native:/home/pb/oe/oe-core/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux_2.19.1.bb, do_populate_sysroot)
>> NOTE: package util-linux-native-2.19.1-r0: task do_populate_sysroot: Started
>> NOTE: package util-linux-native-2.19.1-r0: task do_populate_sysroot: Succeeded
>>
>> It looks as though the "Started" and "Succeeded" lines could just be
>> deleted without losing any real information.
> 
> Heh, I used to have a personal branch where I dropped those, and also
> removed the unnecessary NOTE: prefix. I think its a given that
> something that doesn't indicate a warning or an error is simply
> informative :) The problem with dropping those messages is for
> postprocessing scripts, which may well want/need to know when a task
> completes, not just when it starts. Still, yet another case of
> something we could drop as long as we log it. We need to add a main
> bitbake execution log that captures everything, including debug
> messages, whether the user specifies -D or not.

In most systems, running with -D implies not only greater verbosity, but
also reduced performance. I haven't checked, but I expect that is the
case with bitbake as well. I don't think we want to enable all of -D and
log it by default.

Thanks,

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel