[yocto] Confusion about autotools

[Patrick Doyle]

ok, thanks.

I do get a "Hello World" message out of do_unpack().  Weird.

Thanks.

--wpd


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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