Re: chris larson's cool "bitbake-env" utility

["Eric Bénard" <eric@eukrea.com>]

Le Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:37:10 -0500 (EST),
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> a écrit :

> On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Eric Bénard wrote:
> 
> > Le Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:53:35 -0500 (EST),
> > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> a écrit :
> >
> > > On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Tim Bird wrote:
> > >
> > > > I put a link to your page on my bitbake cheat sheet page at:
> > > > http://elinux.org/Bitbake_Cheat_Sheet
> > >
> > >   as someone who has never bothered to play with any of the UIs and is
> > > thus asking from a position of total ignorance, i have a couple
> > > questions about the "User interfaces" section of that cheat sheet.
> > >
> > >   using stock oe-core, i followed your cheat sheet and tried this:
> > >
> > > $ bitbake
> > >
> > > and got:
> > >
> > > ERROR: Timeout while attempting to communicate with bitbake server
> > >
> > > so i need to start the server?  should that be mentioned there?
> > >
> > what would you expect to get when launching bitbake without any
> > argument ?
> >
> > >   i then tried:
> > >
> > > $ bitbake -u knotty2
> > > FATAL: Invalid user interface 'knotty2' specified.
> > > Valid interfaces: depexp, goggle, ncurses, hob, knotty [default].
> > > $
> > >
> > this is valid in denzil and no more in danny and up because of this
> > commit :
> > commit b97d50618b2187bcfd7d25f64d1444482ca62ef7
> > Author: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Date:   Wed Aug 15 17:50:22 2012 +0100
> >
> >     knotty: Fold knotty2 into knotty and make it the default
> 
>   i was just pointing out the potential confusion in the cheat sheet
> for people unfamiliar with the UIs, nothing more.
> 
I was just pointing out the reason of the problem you saw and raised on
this mailing list, sorry for the inconvenience.

Best regards,
Eric