From: Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: Tell me your build error message annoyances!
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:06:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1306940803.2529.101.camel@phil-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DE56B0D.4020209@intel.com>
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 15:26 -0700, Scott Garman wrote:
> I'd like to collect some feedback on error messages while building that
> you find confusing/annoying/unhelpful. I'm going to be working on trying
> to improve the situation and would like to hear from you about what
> could be more helpful.
Funnily enough we were just having a discussion about this on irc. My
personal top two least favourite diagnostics are:
a) "bitbake -b nonexistent-file" gives ten lines of so of python
exception traceback and then prints "MultipleMatches".
b) "bitbake -b recipe.bb", with a recipe that skips (due to an
inCOMPATIBLE_MACHINE or whatever) gives the traditional ten lines of
traceback spew and then prints "TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not
iterable".
This is with bitbake 1.13.0.
p.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-01 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-31 22:26 Tell me your build error message annoyances! Scott Garman
2011-06-01 1:34 ` mark gross
2011-06-01 15:06 ` Phil Blundell [this message]
2011-06-01 16:25 ` Richard Purdie
2011-06-01 16:58 ` Chris Larson
2011-06-03 14:35 ` mark gross
2011-06-03 14:48 ` Paul Eggleton
2011-06-02 14:17 ` Phil Blundell
2011-06-02 7:34 ` Martin Jansa
2011-06-03 6:10 ` Darren Hart
2011-06-03 8:11 ` Richard Purdie
2011-06-03 14:22 ` Mark Hatle
2011-06-03 15:43 ` Phil Blundell
2011-06-03 15:47 ` Chris Larson
2011-06-07 4:53 ` Darren Hart
2011-06-07 9:18 ` Richard Purdie
2011-06-06 21:13 ` Scott Garman
2011-06-03 14:57 ` Koen Kooi
2011-06-09 11:02 ` Phil Blundell
2011-06-09 11:17 ` Richard Purdie
2011-06-09 15:00 ` Scott Garman
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