[oe] Debugging OpenEmbedded Builds

[Holger Freyther]

On 09/27/2011 01:18 PM, Christian Keck wrote:
> How can debug an OpenEmbedded build? I have made some changes to a board file,
> but it seems that my changes have no effect. Is there a opportunity to look
> into source code just before they are compiled?

you can use bitbake -e recipe, to see how variables and scripts that will be
executed look like. also it generates scripts in the temp/ dir in WORKDIR that
can be inspected, also bitbake -c devshell NAME gets you into such an environment.