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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 22:34:10 +0100
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Add something like bitbake -cmenuconfig <recipe> ?
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On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 10:35 +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is is useful/possible if we add something like bitbake <recipe> -cmenuconfig,
> just like kernel's make menuconfig ?
> 
> We can use the menuconfig to config the vars such as MACHINE, DL_DIR,
> DISTRO_FEATURES, MACHINE_FEATURES and all the variables which are
> configurable, I think that this would help the newbie a lot.
> 
> I think that we can add a menuconfig.bbclass (or other names) to do this,
> and I'd like to work on it.

Why would you want to specify a <recipe> when configuring MACHINE? I
understand why you're thinking this but it isn't well thought out and in
this form would confuse users more than help them.

I don't think the system will even parse without a valid MACHINE, let
alone execute tasks.

Cheers,

Richard