[OE-core] [oe-core][PATCH 2/2] cleanup-workdir: wait for bitbake instances to finish

Christopher Larson clarson at kergoth.com
Mon May 18 22:23:33 UTC 2015


On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Lucas Dutra Nunes <ldnunes at ossystems.com.br
> wrote:

> bitbake uses a lock file on the build dir, "bitbake.lock", to prevent it
> from running before an instance has exited. And sometimes the
> cleanup-workdir script can call bibake too many times, too fast, before
> the lock has been released.
>
> By simply waiting that the lock has been released solves this problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lucas Dutra Nunes <ldnunes at ossystems.com.br>


The fact that the bitbake UI can exit before the lock has been released is
a bug. Not being able to assume bitbake is done by the time the bitbake
command exits is not ideal, no one should have to block directly o the lock
like this.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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