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

2011-06-09 Thread Scott Garman
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 helpful. Tha

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!

2011-06-09 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 helpfu

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

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 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. >> >> Corre

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 P

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 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: Runn

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, virtual:native:/home/pb/oe/oe-cor

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 abo

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

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/unhel

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 t

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.n

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

2011-06-02 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!

2011-06-02 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 an

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

2011-06-02 Thread Martin Jansa
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 03:26:21PM -0700, 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

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 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. I'm goi

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 an

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

2011-06-01 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 helpfu

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

2011-05-31 Thread mark gross
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 03:26:21PM -0700, 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

[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 situation