Re: What's taking so long??

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 15:49 +0800, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > From: Xu, Dongxiao
> > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 3:42 PM
> > 
> > This is a bottle neck for those cases which have a loop of "bb.note", like Gary
> > found in the package bbclass for kernel recipes.
> > 
> > But for normal "bb.note", it may not benefit a lot. So this logging issue may be
> > not a key point to the current long building time.
> > 
> > But anyhow, I am scheduling a test for this patch to see whether it helps for our
> > common build result, like poky-image-minimal, etc.
> > 
> > Comments and thoughts on it?
> > 
> 
> Another issue found in the test, which we're not sure whether we did it correctly, that
> bb.debug is never printed out to the console even with -DDD. Dongxiao checked the
> server side, that no record is passed from the child process regarding to debug info.
> 
> Is there any change to activate the debug message or is it a real issue?

There was a problem in bitbake which was fixed in:

http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=d7eebbe9dbf0d790d4af93466f5c27127cae0999

I think this was the likely cause of this observation.

Cheers,

Richard