How to tell bitbake my prefered terminal in for devshell and access bitbake datastore?

How to tell bitbake my prefered terminal in for devshell and access bitbake datastore?

[MOHAMMAD RASIM]

Hi,

when running bitbake with a recipe and giving the devshell as a command 
bitbake runs the devshell inside xterm, on my other machine it runs tmux.

looking at the openembedded source code here 
https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/blob/master/meta/lib/oe/terminal.py

I can see there are multiple classes for terminals that bitbake loop 
through, but how can I tell bitbake that I prefer a certain terminal?

Also, is it possible to access bitbake datastore from inside the 
devshell(or devpyshell) ?

Regards

Re: How to tell bitbake my prefered terminal in for devshell and access bitbake datastore?

[Rudolf J Streif]

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You can use the variable OE_TERMINAL to choose your preferred terminal.
By default it's set to auto and Bitbake figures out what terminal is
available on your system. Please refer to the manual at:
https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.5/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#var-OE_TERMINAL.

> Also, is it possible to access bitbake datastore from inside the
devshell(or devpyshell) ?

You cannot access d if you mean that, however, all the variables are
exported to the shell.

:rjs


On 07/23/2018 02:49 AM, MOHAMMAD RASIM wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when running bitbake with a recipe and giving the devshell as a
> command bitbake runs the devshell inside xterm, on my other machine it
> runs tmux.
>
> looking at the openembedded source code here
> https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/blob/master/meta/lib/oe/terminal.py
>
> I can see there are multiple classes for terminals that bitbake loop
> through, but how can I tell bitbake that I prefer a certain terminal?
>
> Also, is it possible to access bitbake datastore from inside the
> devshell(or devpyshell) ?
>
> Regards
>

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Rudolf J Streif



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Re: How to tell bitbake my prefered terminal in for devshell and access bitbake datastore?

[MOHAMMAD RASIM]

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Thanks, the OE_TERMINALvariable did it for me

>You cannot access d if you mean that

I don't mean d the object but the variables that are accessed by 
d.getVar method.

>all the variables are exported to the shell.

What variables exactly? I just tried to echo some of the machine config 
and recipe variables and they don't exist inside the devshell

On 07/23/2018 06:05 PM, Rudolf J Streif wrote:
> You can use the variable OE_TERMINAL to choose your preferred terminal.
> By default it's set to auto and Bitbake figures out what terminal is
> available on your system. Please refer to the manual at:
> https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.5/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#var-OE_TERMINAL.
>
>> Also, is it possible to access bitbake datastore from inside the
> devshell(or devpyshell) ?
>
> You cannot access d if you mean that, however, all the variables are
> exported to the shell.
>
> :rjs
>
>
> On 07/23/2018 02:49 AM, MOHAMMAD RASIM wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> when running bitbake with a recipe and giving the devshell as a
>> command bitbake runs the devshell inside xterm, on my other machine it
>> runs tmux.
>>
>> looking at the openembedded source code here
>> https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/blob/master/meta/lib/oe/terminal.py
>>
>> I can see there are multiple classes for terminals that bitbake loop
>> through, but how can I tell bitbake that I prefer a certain terminal?
>>
>> Also, is it possible to access bitbake datastore from inside the
>> devshell(or devpyshell) ?
>>
>> Regards
>>


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