[OE-core] is there really a "fakeroot" task flag?

Mark Hatle mark.hatle at windriver.com
Tue Jul 17 17:48:30 UTC 2012


On 7/17/12 12:41 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Mark Hatle wrote:
>
>> On 7/17/12 9:55 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>>
>>>     perusing bitbake user manual and in section 2.1.18, "Task Flags",
>>> there's mention of "fakeroot".  that's not really a task flag, is it?
>>> i thought that that's (now?) a keyword that's used to define a task
>>> with that property.
>>>
>>>     is that line in the user manual incorrect?
>>
>> My understanding is this is a key word that gets turned into a task
>> flag.
>
>    ok, that makes sense.  that's just not clear from that section in
> the bitbake manual.  are there any other special cases like that?

I believe that both "fakeroot" and "python" are the two only two inline "task 
flags".

--Mark

> rday
>






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