goofing around with "bitbake -e" and, with a clean oe-core checkout, both of the following work:
$ bitbake -e $ bitbake -e core-image-core now, just for fun, i added a trivial recipe file to that images/ directory to see what kind of error message i would get if i neglected to include a license, so i added the rday.bb recipe file (one of the files i was using to test assignment): RDAY ??= "rday1" RDAY ??= "rday2" RDAY ?= "rday3" then tested: $ bitbake -e rday Loading cache: 100% |######################################################################| ETA: 00:00:00 Loaded 1106 entries from dependency cache. ERROR: This recipe does not have the LICENSE field set (rday) | ETA: --:--:-- ERROR: Unable to parse /home/rpjday/oe/oe-core/meta/recipes-core/images/rday.bb: Exited with "1" ERROR: Command execution failed: Exited with 1 Summary: There were 3 ERROR messages shown, returning a non-zero exit code. $ so that's pretty much what i expected. what i *didn't* expect was that this would still work: $ bitbake -e while this would now fail: $ bitbake -e core-image-core Loading cache: 100% |######################################################################| ETA: 00:00:00 Loaded 1106 entries from dependency cache. ERROR: This recipe does not have the LICENSE field set (rday) | ETA: --:--:-- ERROR: Unable to parse /home/rpjday/oe/oe-core/meta/recipes-core/images/rday.bb: Exited with "1" ERROR: Command execution failed: Exited with 1 Summary: There were 3 ERROR messages shown, returning a non-zero exit code. $ the recipe file "rday.bb" is not being included in any of the other images, so why should its lack of a license file cause that kind of problem? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core