[yocto] Annoying "rerun to fix" bug for bitbake: task failed, but rerun can fix it.

[Burton, Ross]

On 8 November 2017 at 15:49, Jerry Lian <jerry.lian at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not sure whether it is a bug or an error:
> * Quite often, bitbake will fail before finishing, with message like: ...
> task failed with exit code 1...
> * But if you rerun bitbake, it will continue to build.
> * So sometimes I have to rerun many times for finish one build ----
> annoying!
> (by the way, my CPU can run 16 threads)
>

If you tell us what recipe is failing, and what the actual error is, then
we may be able to help.  Generally this is a bug in the makefiles that the
recipe is building and not a problem with Yocto itself.

Ross
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