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authorDiana Thayer <garbados@gmail.com>2017-03-21 13:27:05 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2017-03-27 20:23:19 +0100
commit71e48a361731dda62a05c8ef79691b80a3561596 (patch)
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downloadpoky-71e48a361731dda62a05c8ef79691b80a3561596.tar.gz
bitbake: main: Improve -v and -D option documentation
Expanded and clarify documentation for the -v, --verbose and -D, --debug options. [YOCTO #9962] (Bitbake rev: 921592026c69287cdb40ffd90944d5944f28e2c3) Signed-off-by: Diana Thayer <garbados@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -504,9 +504,19 @@
504 Read the specified file before bitbake.conf. 504 Read the specified file before bitbake.conf.
505 -R POSTFILE, --postread=POSTFILE 505 -R POSTFILE, --postread=POSTFILE
506 Read the specified file after bitbake.conf. 506 Read the specified file after bitbake.conf.
507 -v, --verbose Output more log message data to the terminal. 507 -v, --verbose Enable tracing of shell tasks (with 'set -x').
508 -D, --debug Increase the debug level. You can specify this more 508 Also print bb.note(...) messages to stdout (in
509 than once. 509 addition to writing them to ${T}/log.do_<task>).
510 -D, --debug Increase the debug level. You can specify this
511 more than once. -D sets the debug level to 1,
512 where only bb.debug(1, ...) messages are printed
513 to stdout; -DD sets the debug level to 2, where
514 both bb.debug(1, ...) and bb.debug(2, ...)
515 messages are printed; etc. Without -D, no debug
516 messages are printed. Note that -D only affects
517 output to stdout. All debug messages are written
518 to ${T}/log.do_taskname, regardless of the debug
519 level.
510 -n, --dry-run Don't execute, just go through the motions. 520 -n, --dry-run Don't execute, just go through the motions.
511 -S SIGNATURE_HANDLER, --dump-signatures=SIGNATURE_HANDLER 521 -S SIGNATURE_HANDLER, --dump-signatures=SIGNATURE_HANDLER
512 Dump out the signature construction information, with 522 Dump out the signature construction information, with