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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Chris Larson wrote:

> 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.

  i suspected that was it, it just threw me the first time it
happened.

rday

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