[oe] strange error when coding a bbclass

[Rodrigo Vivi]

On 6/12/07, Richard Purdie <rpurdie at rpsys.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 16:49 -0300, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> > I have this dummy function in dummyclass.bbclass
> >
> > python do_blah () {
> >     print "teste"
> > }
> >
> > just it...
> >
> > The strangest thing is that the error depends where I add this task:
> > * addtask blah before do_patch  # it breaks do_patch of quilt-native
> > * addtask blah before do_configure # it breaks do_stage of quilt-native
> > * addtask blah before do_install # it breaks do_configure of linux-libc-headers
> > # All logs are in the end of this e-mail.
> >
> > This is a very stupid and almost empty function that does nothing
> > important but the build breaks...
>
> Its not stupid, its by design.

Sorry, I mean my function is stupid. it does anything but a print.

>
> addtask inserts a dependency so if you add
>
> addtask blah before do_configure
>
> You are saying that say "patch" must run, followed by "blah" followed by
> "configure". Bitbake will check the task dependencies and build them if
> they're missing. If a subsequent task has a timestamp older than its
> dependencies it will rerun them too (just on a per recipe basis at
> present). There have been requests to extend that so if you rebuild gtk
> +, all the gtk apps will rebuild and we will probably optionally allow
> that in due course (it should be easy with the new bitbake core).

I've noticed that and it makes sense. What I really cannot understand
is how a very simple function that does anything but a print can break
that packages?

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard

Thanks,
vivijim

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