[yocto] How to find Log

[Scott Garman]

On 02/14/2012 04:47 AM, James Abernathy wrote:
>
> On Feb 14, 2012, at 4:04 AM, Lu, Lianhao wrote:
>
>> James W. wrote on 2012-02-14:
>>> How to locate Log file while a error occur.
>>
>> It's under the directory ${WORKDIR}/temp/. Actually when an error occurs, you can find the specific log file in the output, something like.
>>
>> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
>> /intel/poky/builds/toolchain/tmp/work-shared/gcc-4.6.2+svnr181430-r22/temp/log.do_patch.15156
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Lianhao
>>
>>
> I have a similar questions. If the error occurs and the console log information scrolls too far to get back to, how do I find the error log file then? I know what directory all the logs will be, but is there an easy way to find the one with the error??

In Poky master, we now save the output from bitbake in cooker.log files, 
kept under build/tmp/. This will be a feature of our upcoming 1.2 
release of Yocto.

Scott

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Scott Garman
Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project
Intel Open Source Technology Center