Re: [OE-core] Tell me your build error message annoyances!

2011-06-09 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 15:26 -0700, Scott Garman wrote: I'd like to collect some feedback on error messages while building that you find confusing/annoying/unhelpful. I'm going to be working on trying to improve the situation and would like to hear from you about what could be more helpful.

Re: [OE-core] Tell me your build error message annoyances!

2011-06-09 Thread Richard Purdie
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 12:02 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: After I made a typo (mismatched quotes) in one of my recipes, my next bitbake run printed: Loading cache: 100%

Re: [OE-core] Tell me your build error message annoyances!

2011-06-07 Thread Richard Purdie
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 21:53 -0700, Darren Hart wrote: On 06/03/2011 08:47 AM, Chris Larson wrote: Heh, I used to have a personal branch where I dropped those, and also removed the unnecessary NOTE: prefix. I think its a given that something that doesn't indicate a warning or an error is

Re: [OE-core] Tell me your build error message annoyances!

2011-06-06 Thread Scott Garman
On 06/02/2011 11:10 PM, Darren Hart wrote: o I'm seeing duplicate messages lately - no examples handy, I'll post or open a bug next time. Hi Darren, Before I can file a bug for this, I'll need more details/a reproducible test case. Scott -- Scott Garman Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto

Re: [OE-core] Tell me your build error message annoyances!

2011-06-06 Thread Darren Hart
On 06/03/2011 08:47 AM, Chris Larson wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Phil Blundell p...@pbcl.net wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 09:22 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote: I believe currently we have around 3-5 messages per step, and it's still too noisy -- unless you need to debug something.

Re: [OE-core] Tell me your build error message annoyances!

2011-06-03 Thread Darren Hart
On 05/31/2011 03:26 PM, Scott Garman wrote: Hey folks, I'd like to collect some feedback on error messages while building that you find confusing/annoying/unhelpful. I'm going to be working on trying to improve the situation and would like to hear from you about what could be more

Re: [OE-core] Tell me your build error message annoyances!

2011-06-03 Thread Richard Purdie
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 23:10 -0700, Darren Hart wrote: These are maybe a bit off topic, but I'll leave it to you to decide if they meet the criteria for this effort. o bb.debug messages are not logged anywhere nor do they appear on the console with -DDD during recipe parsing (while bb.note

Re: [OE-core] Tell me your build error message annoyances!

2011-06-03 Thread Mark Hatle
On 6/3/11 1:10 AM, Darren Hart wrote: On 05/31/2011 03:26 PM, Scott Garman wrote: ... o In general I find the default UI to be exceedingly noisy. It feels very much like what I would write for something I was actively developing - ie, something I expect to break a lot! I don't think

Re: [OE-core] Tell me your build error message annoyances!

2011-06-03 Thread mark gross
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 05:25:58PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 16:06 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 15:26 -0700, Scott Garman wrote: I'd like to collect some feedback on error messages while building that you find confusing/annoying/unhelpful.

Re: [OE-core] Tell me your build error message annoyances!

2011-06-03 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Friday 03 June 2011 15:35:45 mark gross wrote: Well perhaps it would be easier to build a list of packages that have been skipped? I think the cache knows about them. Perhaps they could be reported to a skipped file or something similar? FYI there is a patch I submitted the other day to

Re: [OE-core] Tell me your build error message annoyances!

2011-06-03 Thread Koen Kooi
Op 1 jun 2011, om 00:26 heeft Scott Garman het volgende geschreven: Hey folks, I'd like to collect some feedback on error messages while building that you find confusing/annoying/unhelpful. I'm going to be working on trying to improve the situation and would like to hear from you about

Re: [OE-core] Tell me your build error message annoyances!

2011-06-03 Thread Phil Blundell
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 09:22 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote: I believe currently we have around 3-5 messages per step, and it's still too noisy -- unless you need to debug something. Correct. Right now, the output looks like: NOTE: Running task 613 of 728 (ID: 190,

Re: [OE-core] Tell me your build error message annoyances!

2011-06-03 Thread Chris Larson
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Phil Blundell p...@pbcl.net wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 09:22 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote: I believe currently we have around 3-5 messages per step, and it's still too noisy -- unless you need to debug something. Correct.  Right now, the output looks like: NOTE:

Re: [OE-core] Tell me your build error message annoyances!

2011-06-02 Thread Phil Blundell
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 16:06 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 15:26 -0700, Scott Garman wrote: I'd like to collect some feedback on error messages while building that you find confusing/annoying/unhelpful. I'm going to be working on trying to improve the situation and

Re: [OE-core] Tell me your build error message annoyances!

2011-06-01 Thread Richard Purdie
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 16:06 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 15:26 -0700, Scott Garman wrote: I'd like to collect some feedback on error messages while building that you find confusing/annoying/unhelpful. I'm going to be working on trying to improve the situation and

Re: [OE-core] Tell me your build error message annoyances!

2011-06-01 Thread Chris Larson
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Richard Purdie richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 16:06 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 15:26 -0700, Scott Garman wrote: I'd like to collect some feedback on error messages while building that you find

[OE-core] Tell me your build error message annoyances!

2011-05-31 Thread Scott Garman
Hey folks, I'd like to collect some feedback on error messages while building that you find confusing/annoying/unhelpful. I'm going to be working on trying to improve the situation and would like to hear from you about what could be more helpful. I'm starting to track some of these