[Openembedded-users] bitbake interactive shell problem

[Bjørn Forsman]

Hi,

2010/8/6 Caglar Akyuz <caglarakyuz at gmail.com>:
> On Friday 06 August 2010 04:13:31 pm Bjørn Forsman wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to use the bitbake interactive shell, but it doesn't work for
>>  me:
>>
>> $ bitbake -i
>> ERROR: Nothing to do.  Use 'bitbake world' to build everything, or run
>> 'bitbake --help' for usage information.
>> $ bitbake -i nano    # builds nano but I don't get the shell
>>
>> My build system is Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit with
>> $ bitbake --version
>> BitBake Build Tool Core version 1.10.0, bitbake version 1.10.0
>>
>> So, does anyone know what is going on?
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't think interactive shell is well supported anymore. Is there any chance
> 'devshell' can do what you need? In case all you need to do is to add
> following to your local.conf:
>
> INHERIT += "devshell"
>
> Then typing:
>
> $bitbake -cdevshell nano
>
> opens you a new shell where you can build nano interactively with all
> environment variables are set.

devshell works great! Thanks a lot!
(You know, I got devshell and interactive bitbake mixed up in my head.
It was devshell functionality I really wanted anyway.)

To the bitbake maintainers:
Please remove the '-i, --interactive' option from bitbake help text if
it is broken and not going to be fixed.

Best regards,
Bjørn Forsman