[yocto] [PATCH] bb.build.addtask: add simple check for circular dependency

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2019-01-18 at 05:30 +0100, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> So if KNOWN_TASKS is defined in a configuration file in oe-core, it
> would be OK?
> It needs to be extended to check for KNOWN_TASKS == None of course.

No, this is too fragile. We then have to maintain two different lists
of tasks. If we did that we may as well just remove the generic tasks
mechanism and hardcode the tasks list in the metadata.

As I mentioned, we need to come up with something which detects the
task loops generically.

Cheers,

Richard