Re: bitbake-setup feedback - long subpath + hardcoding machine and distro

[ChenQi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>]

On 11/12/25 14:09, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 at 03:54, ChenQi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com> wrote:
>> The subpath is unnecessarily long, e.g.,
>> poky-master-poky-distro_poky-machine_qemux86-64. And it's hardcoding
>> machine and distro values.
>> Such design might be reasonable for testing infrastructure, but it's not
>> good user experience for developers.
>>
>> For example, what if I want to to build things for qemuarm64? I'm using
>> layers under the a subpath with the name of
>> poky-master-poky-distro_poky-machine_qemux86-64 but I'm building for
>> qemuarm64. This feels a little weird.
> The directory name is hardcoding the choices made during
> 'bitbake-setup init'. The reason is that if you want to run 'init'
> again and make different choices, it would be able to create a
> different directory, and not error out because the one it wants to
> create already exists.
>
> There's a patch for bitbake-setup to give you a chance to write in
> something shorter interactively. You can also pass in a shorter choice
> with --setup-dir option. You can also use --skip-selection to omit the
> selection of distro or machine, or anything else that is asked at
> 'init', and then you will also get a shorter directory. But the
> default needs to ensure different setup directories don't clash, and
> so the choices are hardcoded in them. If there's something else we
> could do, please tell so.
>
> Alex

Hi Alex,

Thanks a lot for your help. The '--setup-dir-name' satisfies what I need.

Regards,
Qi