On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 01:07:46PM +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> Since updating my copy of bitbake to one which does this extra locking,
> I've come to realise that the constraint of having only one copy of
> bitbake running is a bit of a nuisance when making use of devshells.  I
> used to quite often have one or two long-running devshells for packages
> that I was actively working on, and then in parallel with that would use
> bitbake to recompile other things.  With the new locking mechanism, as
> soon as I have a single devshell open I am now prohibited from using
> bitbake for anything else in that same build directory.
> 
> Would it be reasonable to exempt devshells from that locking or is there
> some compelling reason why they need to be serialised?

The same does apply to bitbake-diffsigs now after IIRC this patch
http://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/commit/?id=cc70181659c07e04c205e17832846acf1ff31d28
before that I could use bitbake-diffsigs from any directory (not only
TOPDIR) and also when build in the same directory was still running.

Cheers,

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: martin.ja...@gmail.com

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