On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Martin Jansa <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 01:07:46PM +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> Since updating my copy of bitbake to one which does this extra locking,
>> I've come to realise that the constraint of having only one copy of
>> bitbake running is a bit of a nuisance when making use of devshells.  I
>> used to quite often have one or two long-running devshells for packages
>> that I was actively working on, and then in parallel with that would use
>> bitbake to recompile other things.  With the new locking mechanism, as
>> soon as I have a single devshell open I am now prohibited from using
>> bitbake for anything else in that same build directory.
>>
>> Would it be reasonable to exempt devshells from that locking or is there
>> some compelling reason why they need to be serialised?
>
> The same does apply to bitbake-diffsigs now after IIRC this patch
> http://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/commit/?id=cc70181659c07e04c205e17832846acf1ff31d28
> before that I could use bitbake-diffsigs from any directory (not only
> TOPDIR) and also when build in the same directory was still running.
>

and also to use runqemu

> Cheers,
>
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