[OE-core] why does "bitbake -e" check the license of a *non*-included recipe file?

[Chris Larson]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> $ bitbake -e core-image-core
> Loading cache: 100% |######################################################################| ETA:  00:00:00
> Loaded 1106 entries from dependency cache.
> ERROR: This recipe does not have the LICENSE field set (rday)                              | ETA:  --:--:--
> ERROR: Unable to parse /home/rpjday/oe/oe-core/meta/recipes-core/images/rday.bb: Exited with "1"
> ERROR: Command execution failed: Exited with 1
>
> Summary: There were 3 ERROR messages shown, returning a non-zero exit code.
> $
>
>  the recipe file "rday.bb" is not being included in any of the other
> images, so why should its lack of a license file cause that kind of
> problem?

It's a parse time failure, as opposed to during execution of an actual
task, and all recipes have to be parsed to operate against any recipe.
-- 
Christopher Larson