[yocto] Help diagnosing a build failure involving ncurses, gettext, and eglibc

McClintock Matthew-B29882 B29882 at freescale.com
Wed Nov 2 22:16:30 PDT 2011


On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> I came up with the following to ensure I have a log of every bitbake
> command I run along with some useful stats. Feel free to use it or flame it:
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
> TIMESTAMP=$(date -u "+%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
> LOG=$(mktemp --suffix=".log" bb-$TIMESTAMP-XXX)
> if [ -z "$LOG" ]; then
>        echo "ERROR: failed to create log file"
>        exit 1
> fi
>
> (
>        echo "Start: $TIMESTAMP"
>        echo "========================================"
>        /usr/bin/time 2>&1 -v bitbake $@
>        echo "========================================"
>        echo "End: $(date -u '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S')"
> ) | tee $LOG
>
> echo "Logfile: $LOG"

It would be nice if we had this as a selectable option in the bitbake
wrapper somehow and it saved off logs to tmp/bitbake/logs/ or
something appropriate.

-M



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