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| author | Diana Thayer <garbados@gmail.com> | 2017-03-21 13:27:05 -0700 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-03-27 20:23:19 +0100 |
| commit | 71e48a361731dda62a05c8ef79691b80a3561596 (patch) | |
| tree | 7197a9419fc28ca55a81c3ca211a71fb52c921cb /bitbake/doc | |
| parent | 542eb4731cd491c23e30689e5c8c0da91ba4bb44 (diff) | |
| download | poky-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>
Diffstat (limited to 'bitbake/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-intro.xml | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-intro.xml b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-intro.xml index 7248a0bf4e..5bbfc67f7b 100644 --- a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-intro.xml +++ b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-intro.xml | |||
| @@ -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 |