[yocto] Confusion about autotools

[Chris Larson]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Patrick Doyle <wpdster at gmail.com> wrote:

> ok, that makes sense.  Trying to pattern match against too many
> patterns, and not spending enough time understanding the underlying
> technology.  Thank you for the explanation.
>
> If you don't mind, I'll move on to my next question...
>
> I now have a "do_fetch()" task that looks like this:
>
> do_fetch () {
> bberror "Hello World"
> exit 1
> }
>
> Where would I see "Hello World" pop out?  I don't see it in the log file.
>

It should show up in the do_fetch log (not the cooker log), which lives
next to the run script. That said, it's possible you're hitting an issue
due to the base.bbclass fetch implementation being python, not shell.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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