Re: [PATCH 1/2] u-boot: remove UBOOT_MACHINE and COMPATIBLE_MACHINES

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 06:56 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> 
> On 05/27/2011 01:40 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 20:43 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> >> On 05/26/2011 04:24 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 14:12 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> >>>> Note: I used bb.note() instead of bb.debug() to ensure the message at least
> >>>>       makes it to the console. From what I could gather, bb.debug() doesn't
> >>>>       go anywhere during recipe parsing.
> >>>
> >>> Why?
> >>>
> >>
> >> My thinking was that the only time you would legitimately try and build
> >> this package when you can't is during a "world" build, which is likely
> >> an unattended sort of build anyway. The rest of the time you might hit
> >> this error would be when you intended to build u-boot but are missing
> >> the requisite configuration bits in your machine config.
> > 
> > You've inserted the note at parsing time though so every time anyone
> > builds anything this will show up.
> 
> Aha! Got it. I changed it and ran a test:
> 
> bb.note("DEBUG TO FOLLOW")
> bb.debug(1, "To build %s, see %s for instructions on setting \
> 	     up your machine config" % (PN, FILE))
> 
> 
> $ rm -rf tmp/cache; bitbake -DDDD u-boot | tee log
> Pseudo is not present but is required, building this first before the
> main build
> Loading cache...done.
> Loaded 998 entries from dependency cache.
> Parsing recipes...NOTE: DEBUG TO FOLLOW
> done.
> Parsing of 783 .bb files complete (780 cached, 3 parsed). 1000 targets,
> 11 skipped, 0 masked, 0 errors.
> 
> As you can see, even with -DDDD, the message never makes it to the
> console. So I agree that bb.note() is inappropriate, unfortunately,
> bb.debug doesn't appear to be working. I believe it was yesterday...

The result was cached (780 cached). Try that command after "touch
conf/local.conf" and it will be in there.

Cheers,

Richard