From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [195.234.128.72] (helo=scotty.chl-informatik.de) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HOu9H-00019h-7C for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:17:35 +0100 Received: from linux64.chl-informatik.de (linux64.chl-informatik.de [192.168.10.17]) by scotty.chl-informatik.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id l27ATAfl008915 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:29:11 +0100 From: Christopher Lang To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:17:31 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <1173131731.5842.140.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1173131731.5842.140.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200703071217.31968.christopher.lang@plus.cablesurf.de> Subject: Re: Bitbake Request for Testing of bitbake 1.8 X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:17:35 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Richard, I did some tests with bb 1.8 and with same setup with 1.66. 1.66 works, 1.8 fails. results in: http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D1944 cheers Chris Am Montag, 5. M=E4rz 2007 22:55 schrieb Richard Purdie: > I've been putting this off for a while but bitbake trunk has branched > for a new stable release series, 1.8.x which will ultimately replace the > 1.6.x stable series. > > Could people give the 1.8 branch in bitbake a try? If you have problems, > I will do my best to resolve them before 1.8.0 is released. I estimate > 1.8.0 is say a week away, I want to release soon. > > For what its worth, some of the core devs have been using trunk for a > while with success and its been used in poky without incident for a > while now too. > > > What's will be new in 1.8? > > * We basically rewrote half the core. Bitbake used to calculate the > build path "on the fly" which was no use for multithreading, its now > been replaced with a calculation in advance (taskdata and runqueue). > This allows it to do simplistic multithreading. Set BB_NUMBER_THREADS =3D > "100" in local.conf to lock your machine up or something lower to try > multithreading ;-). > > * The -g dependency graph output has changed and now includes a task > dependency file. Has anyone got a good way to view these graphically > yet? > > * The fetchers were refactored removing duplicate code and standardising > behaviour. > > * Numerous code changes were made internally to refactor/modularise the > code. This will be useful in future developments (the last code I > checked in prepares for the UI). > > > What will happen in trunk? > > I've branched as I have some fairly invasive changes planned for trunk. > The aim of these is to split bitbake into a client/server and look at > UIs. Whilst 1.7.x was very stable more recently, 1.9.x is going to > break ;-). > > The current UI code I have is about as secure as publishing your IP > address and root password on the web and leaving the telnet port open so > when I check it in, use at your own risk. I will accept patches to > address these issues ;-). My main concern is the structure at the moment > rather than security or functionality which can come later. > > > So please do test the bitbake 1.8 branch and lets make it as successful > as 1.6! > > Cheers, > > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel