[OE-core] [PATCH][V2] u-boot: state the MACHINE when skipping u-boot

2013-08-01 Thread Ross Burton
If the user accidently tries building u-boot on a machine doesn't use u-boot (such as qemuarm) the error message doesn't make it clear why u-boot was skipped. To help, state the machine that was being built for again. [ YOCTO #4945 ] Signed-off-by: Ross Burton ross.bur...@intel.com ---

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH][V2] u-boot: state the MACHINE when skipping u-boot

2013-08-01 Thread Laszlo Papp
Speaking of gerrit terms: I would prefer that you didn't submit this. I would like it to be more specific. If it cannot be more specific, it should provide further information to get more specific information. Note, machine configuration can be the command line as well, so this would still be

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH][V2] u-boot: state the MACHINE when skipping u-boot

2013-08-01 Thread Burton, Ross
On 1 August 2013 11:50, Laszlo Papp lp...@kde.org wrote: Speaking of gerrit terms: I would prefer that you didn't submit this. I would like it to be more specific. If it cannot be more specific, it should provide further information to get more specific information. Note, machine

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH][V2] u-boot: state the MACHINE when skipping u-boot

2013-08-01 Thread Burton, Ross
On 1 August 2013 11:56, Burton, Ross ross.bur...@intel.com wrote: On 1 August 2013 11:50, Laszlo Papp lp...@kde.org wrote: Speaking of gerrit terms: I would prefer that you didn't submit this. I would like it to be more specific. If it cannot be more specific, it should provide further

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH][V2] u-boot: state the MACHINE when skipping u-boot

2013-08-01 Thread Laszlo Papp
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Burton, Ross ross.bur...@intel.com wrote: On 1 August 2013 11:50, Laszlo Papp lp...@kde.org wrote: Speaking of gerrit terms: I would prefer that you didn't submit this. I would like it to be more specific. If it cannot be more specific, it should provide

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH][V2] u-boot: state the MACHINE when skipping u-boot

2013-08-01 Thread Burton, Ross
On 1 August 2013 12:18, Laszlo Papp lp...@kde.org wrote: It cannot be more specific without dumping the entire machine configuration, which won't help because a variable is *not* set. No no, it could print out the concrete file to look up, not just a name. Besides, I would probably even print

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH][V2] u-boot: state the MACHINE when skipping u-boot

2013-08-01 Thread Laszlo Papp
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Burton, Ross ross.bur...@intel.com wrote: On 1 August 2013 12:18, Laszlo Papp lp...@kde.org wrote: It cannot be more specific without dumping the entire machine configuration, which won't help because a variable is *not* set. No no, it could print out the

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH][V2] u-boot: state the MACHINE when skipping u-boot

2013-08-01 Thread Burton, Ross
On 1 August 2013 17:33, Laszlo Papp lp...@kde.org wrote: I'm not sure what you meant here. Do you mean a situation where the local.conf says MACHINE=foo and the user also sets MACHINE=foo in the environment? Yes. But there's nothing wrong with the user doing that at all. Ross

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH][V2] u-boot: state the MACHINE when skipping u-boot

2013-08-01 Thread Laszlo Papp
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Burton, Ross ross.bur...@intel.com wrote: On 1 August 2013 17:33, Laszlo Papp lp...@kde.org wrote: I'm not sure what you meant here. Do you mean a situation where the local.conf says MACHINE=foo and the user also sets MACHINE=foo in the environment?

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH][V2] u-boot: state the MACHINE when skipping u-boot

2013-08-01 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Laszlo Papp lp...@kde.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Burton, Ross ross.bur...@intel.com wrote: On 1 August 2013 17:33, Laszlo Papp lp...@kde.org wrote: I'm not sure what you meant here. Do you mean a situation where the local.conf says

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH][V2] u-boot: state the MACHINE when skipping u-boot

2013-08-01 Thread Laszlo Papp
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.brwrote: On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Laszlo Papp lp...@kde.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Burton, Ross ross.bur...@intel.com wrote: On 1 August 2013 17:33, Laszlo Papp lp...@kde.org wrote: I'm not sure

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH][V2] u-boot: state the MACHINE when skipping u-boot

2013-08-01 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Thursday 01 August 2013 17:52:13 Laszlo Papp wrote: On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.brwrote: On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Laszlo Papp lp...@kde.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Burton, Ross ross.bur...@intel.com wrote: On 1 August

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH][V2] u-boot: state the MACHINE when skipping u-boot

2013-08-01 Thread Laszlo Papp
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Paul Eggleton paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com wrote: I'm afraid this is not practical. The ability to specify the value for MACHINE and other variables from the external environment is not just there for folks running bitbake manually from the command line, but

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH][V2] u-boot: state the MACHINE when skipping u-boot

2013-08-01 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Laszlo Papp lp...@kde.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Paul Eggleton paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com wrote: I'm afraid this is not practical. The ability to specify the value for MACHINE and other variables from the external environment is not just

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH][V2] u-boot: state the MACHINE when skipping u-boot

2013-08-01 Thread Laszlo Papp
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.brwrote: On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Laszlo Papp lp...@kde.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Paul Eggleton paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com wrote: I'm afraid this is not practical. The ability to specify the