[yocto] Correct procedure for rebuilding after a git pull

[James Abernathy]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:

> On 3 October 2012 14:05, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Now I see a bunch of patches pushed to Denzil branch and I want to test
> > them.  My build directory is untouched since the successful build before.
> > What do I do to rebuild my project to include the latest patches.  I've
> > tried things like "bitbake -c cleansstate core-image-cdv-media" before
> the
> > new "bitbake core-image-cdv-media" and I've tried just rebaking by
> itself.
> > Something always fails.  I've learned that to really test I have to
> > completely delete my build directory saving only my local.conf and
> > bblayer.conf.
>
> Just git pull ; bitbake should work -- all of the packages that
> changed will rebuild without any problems.
>
> That's the theory, and everyone who works against oe-core/poky master
> does this ever day (including me).
>
> Can you give an example of something that fails?
>


> The most recent patch update to Denzil included some Cedartrail BSP
> updates to the CDV PVR driver.  I was traveling last week and I was out of
> date on my poky and meta-intel by at least that long.  Monday was the
> pull.  So when the rebuild happened, I got a cdv-pvr driver configuration
> error.  I didn't look into why because of my experience of this taking
> longer than a complete rebuild.  So I deleted the build directory and did
> the rebuild.  And I didn't get the error on the rebuild.  Everything still
> works fine for me on that BSP.


Jim A


> Ross
>
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