[OE-core] [PATCH] autotools.bbclass: output failed config.log

[Andreas Müller]

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:23 AM Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com> wrote:
>
> If do_configure failed, output content of config.log
> to configure log, it is helpful to trace the do_configure
> failure on the build system which is hard to login.
> (such as autobuilder)
>
> Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com>
> ---
>  meta/classes/autotools.bbclass | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/autotools.bbclass b/meta/classes/autotools.bbclass
> index 8768a6a..03cbe1b 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/autotools.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/autotools.bbclass
> @@ -90,7 +90,11 @@ oe_runconf () {
>                 bbnote "Running $cfgscript ${CONFIGUREOPTS} ${EXTRA_OECONF} $@"
>                 if ! ${CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS} $cfgscript ${CONFIGUREOPTS} ${EXTRA_OECONF} "$@"; then
>                         bbnote "The following config.log files may provide further information."
> -                       bbnote `find ${B} -ignore_readdir_race -type f -name config.log`
> +                       config_log="`find ${B} -ignore_readdir_race -type f -name config.log`"
> +                       bbnote "$config_log"
> +                       [ -e "$config_log" ] && cat "$config_log" | while read line; do
> +                               bbnote "$line"
> +                       done
>                         bbfatal_log "configure failed"
>                 fi
>         else
> --
> 2.7.4
>
That output is useful only sometimes and extremly verbose. I'd suggest
to introduce a switch to enable/disable (even as newbie user I am able
to find config.log). How about making autobuilder's WORKDIR
accessible?

Andreas