[yocto] Removing do_compile task and ordering problem

[mar.krzeminski]

After reading manual I assumed that /deltask/ will reorder the dependences.
If this is expected behaviour it is fine for me :)
I use /noexec/ flag then.

Regards,
Marcin


W dniu 21.05.2015 o 14:55, Paul Eggleton pisze:
> Hi Marcin,
>
> On Thursday 21 May 2015 12:47:05 Marcin Krzemiński wrote:
>> I am writing recipe that inherits from *native*.
>> I removed do_compile task using: *deltask do_compile*
>> When i was ruing bitbake my-recipe all works fine, but when I added recipe
>> to *EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS *and run* bitbake core-image-minimal *tasks were
>> reordered in some strange way that task do_install was performed before
>> do_fetch.
>> When I hanged *deltask do_compile *to *do_compile[noexec] = "1" * all went
>> back to normal.
>> I found *deltask *in manual so I do not know, is it a bug or not?
> I suspect this is because all deltask does is delete the task, it does not
> reconnect the dependency chain such that tasks that depended on the deleted
> task would depend on the tasks that the deleted task depended upon, so what
> you get in this case is do_install no longer having any dependencies. To be
> honest the current behaviour seems reasonable to me, though it is not
> immediately obvious and ought to be described in the manual. I think in your
> situation you really do want to set the noexec flag rather than using deltask.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>

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