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On 12/13/2016 12:48 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 22:19:34 Robert Yang wrote:
>> The contents are helpful to debug when the error happens.
>
> In this case removing this is OK because we're operating on an eSDK that the
> tests install. However, this wouldn't be appropriate for the devtool oe-
> selftest tests since they are operating on the user's build system itself -
> not that you probably have any intention of changing those, I just wanted to
> note that.

Sorry, I don't quite understand, does selftest uses oeqa/sdkext/devtool.py,
please ? Even if it uses devtool.py, I still think that we need keep the error
contents for debugging when the error happens. It's very hard to debug when
there is no error log or no workspace.

// Robert

>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>