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From: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: Noexec tasks?
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On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 09:55 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> Messages like these are [fairly] new:
>    NOTE: Noexec task 3045 of 3117 (ID: 505, /local/poky-amltd/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-cross_4.5.0.bb, do_package_write)
> I don't see that they add much (any?) value and just increase the
> noise.  For example, if I rerun 'bitbake some-image' which has N
> steps, I get N-2 of these followed by a couple of steps that actually
> do the work.  Pretty annoying when N is large (for most images, N is
> measured in thousands of steps)
> 
> Can these messages be suppressed?  Is there any good reason to show them?

They're meant to appear once, the first time a noexec task is "skipped"
in the same way the other running task X of Y messages appear. I found
the bug that was causing the to repeat all the time and will push a fix
which should make the messages much less annoying :).

Cheers,

Richard