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. >> >> Correct. Right now, the output looks like: >> >> NOTE: Running task 613 of 728 (ID: 190, >> virtual:native:/home/pb/oe/oe-core/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux_2.19.1.bb, >> do_install) >> NOTE: package util-linux-native-2.19.1-r0: task do_install: Started >> NOTE: package util-linux-native-2.19.1-r0: task do_install: Succeeded >> NOTE: Running task 614 of 728 (ID: 191, >> virtual:native:/home/pb/oe/oe-core/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux_2.19.1.bb, >> do_populate_sysroot) >> NOTE: package util-linux-native-2.19.1-r0: task do_populate_sysroot: Started >> NOTE: package util-linux-native-2.19.1-r0: task do_populate_sysroot: >> Succeeded >> >> It looks as though the "Started" and "Succeeded" lines could just be >> deleted without losing any real information. > > 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 simply > informative :) The problem with dropping those messages is for > postprocessing scripts, which may well want/need to know when a task > completes, not just when it starts. Still, yet another case of > something we could drop as long as we log it. We need to add a main > bitbake execution log that captures everything, including debug > messages, whether the user specifies -D or not.
In most systems, running with -D implies not only greater verbosity, but also reduced performance. I haven't checked, but I expect that is the case with bitbake as well. I don't think we want to enable all of -D and log it by default. Thanks, -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Linux Kernel _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
