[yocto] chris larson's cool "bitbake-env" utility

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Eric Bénard wrote:

> Le Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:53:35 -0500 (EST),
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> a écrit :
>
> > On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Tim Bird wrote:
> >
> > > I put a link to your page on my bitbake cheat sheet page at:
> > > http://elinux.org/Bitbake_Cheat_Sheet
> >
> >   as someone who has never bothered to play with any of the UIs and is
> > thus asking from a position of total ignorance, i have a couple
> > questions about the "User interfaces" section of that cheat sheet.
> >
> >   using stock oe-core, i followed your cheat sheet and tried this:
> >
> > $ bitbake
> >
> > and got:
> >
> > ERROR: Timeout while attempting to communicate with bitbake server
> >
> > so i need to start the server?  should that be mentioned there?
> >
> what would you expect to get when launching bitbake without any
> argument ?
>
> >   i then tried:
> >
> > $ bitbake -u knotty2
> > FATAL: Invalid user interface 'knotty2' specified.
> > Valid interfaces: depexp, goggle, ncurses, hob, knotty [default].
> > $
> >
> this is valid in denzil and no more in danny and up because of this
> commit :
> commit b97d50618b2187bcfd7d25f64d1444482ca62ef7
> Author: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
> Date:   Wed Aug 15 17:50:22 2012 +0100
>
>     knotty: Fold knotty2 into knotty and make it the default

  i was just pointing out the potential confusion in the cheat sheet
for people unfamiliar with the UIs, nothing more.

rday

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