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

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 16:30 +0100, Eric Bénard wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> Le Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:56:14 +0000,
> 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 think this one has been fixed now. Leon's original error is more
problematic though...

Cheers,

Richard