From 71e48a361731dda62a05c8ef79691b80a3561596 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Diana Thayer Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:27:05 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- .../bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-intro.xml | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'bitbake/doc') 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 @@ Read the specified file before bitbake.conf. -R POSTFILE, --postread=POSTFILE Read the specified file after bitbake.conf. - -v, --verbose Output more log message data to the terminal. - -D, --debug Increase the debug level. You can specify this more - than once. + -v, --verbose Enable tracing of shell tasks (with 'set -x'). + Also print bb.note(...) messages to stdout (in + addition to writing them to ${T}/log.do_). + -D, --debug Increase the debug level. You can specify this + more than once. -D sets the debug level to 1, + where only bb.debug(1, ...) messages are printed + to stdout; -DD sets the debug level to 2, where + both bb.debug(1, ...) and bb.debug(2, ...) + messages are printed; etc. Without -D, no debug + messages are printed. Note that -D only affects + output to stdout. All debug messages are written + to ${T}/log.do_taskname, regardless of the debug + level. -n, --dry-run Don't execute, just go through the motions. -S SIGNATURE_HANDLER, --dump-signatures=SIGNATURE_HANDLER Dump out the signature construction information, with -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf