From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TyNmv-00034n-3X for bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:28:26 +0100 Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 24 Jan 2013 06:12:44 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,529,1355126400"; d="scan'208";a="277909026" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.123.150]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 24 Jan 2013 06:12:43 -0800 From: Paul Eggleton To: ml@communistcode.co.uk, bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:12:42 +0000 Message-ID: <2882957.uUmHZcLWSa@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.9.4 (Linux/3.5.0-22-generic; KDE/4.9.4; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <51011737.8020501@communistcode.co.uk> References: <51011737.8020501@communistcode.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Graphviz folder X-BeenThere: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:28:28 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Thursday 24 January 2013 11:12:55 Jack Mitchell wrote: > I was wondering if there would be support or interest for a patch which > puts generated graphviz and dependancy files into their own folder. > > Currently bitbake -g image creates a multitude of files in the root > folder and I feel it just gets a bit messy. I think a better solution > would either be to put the files in their own folder e.g. graphviz (name > to be decided) or in tmp/graphviz. This doesn't seem unreasonable, although I've never been too bothered with it writing to the current directory myself. > On the topic of graphviz I can't seem to find a supported application > for viewing the files as a nice graph, is this format still relevant > these days? Well, graphviz itself is the tool usually used to process these files (e.g. the "dot" command which graphviz provides) however the image files it produces can be somewhat large. My tool of choice however is xdot (http://code.google.com/p/jrfonseca/wiki/XDot), which seems to handle large graphs fairly well. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre