[yocto] Issues toaster and devtool together

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi David,

On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 20:23:43 David Winn wrote:
> I was recently part of the Yocto Dev Day event, and learned a lot of good
> tools for working with OE. I then got home and wanted to fold many of them
> into our development process. Unfortunately I've hit a problem; toaster and
> devtool don't seem to run in the same working copy.
> Here's what I'm doing:
> > git clone ...poky poky
> > cd poky
> > git checkout jethro
> > source oe-init-build-env
> > source toaster start
> > devtool modify -x which scratch/which
> 
> ERROR: Only one copy of bitbake should be run against a build directory
> 
> My intent was to use devtool to do my development and then use toaster to
> browse what happened in the working copy. Is this working for anyone else?
> Any tips to fix the error above?

Unfortunately this is a known limitation - having Toaster running prevents 
running devtool and some of our other command line utilities [1]. We plan to 
address this in the next release, for now I'm afraid the only workaround is to 
stop Toaster when you need to run devtool.

Cheers,
Paul

[1] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5470

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre