[OE-core] bitbake parsing of IMAGE_INSTALL += # tslib mtd-utils" extremely user unfriendly.

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 23 February 2012 16:30:32 Eric Bénard wrote:
> Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> a écrit :
> > What was the output? (I realise I can find out)
> > 
> > With usability issues like this, opening a bug in
> > bugzilla.yoctoproject.org is a good idea, particularly as we've been
> > focusing on cleaning up this kind of problem. Reporting them with a
> > known reproducible test case helps a lot as when you're looking to try
> > and fix these things, you need a good set of reproducers.
> > 
> > As a quick plug for the work that's been done already, we've now worked
> > through many of the issues that were reported so it is worth taking the
> > time to report them! :)
> 
> I had also a bitbake failure after an error in an image and bitbake
> exited without any information concerning the error (even when running
> with -DDD I didn't managed to see a log - but I must admit I didn't
> search in the whole history).
> 
> Basically I had :
> XSERVER += "    <==== missing \
> 	xf86-input-tslib \
> 	"
> and bitbake exit with :
> ERROR: Command execution failed: Exited with 1
> et nothing more.

This got broken last night and fixed last night, so if you update you should 
have the fix.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre