From 0eb49324c86e56727eb764bd9018bca0bf75c869 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 07:56:16 -0500 Subject: BUGID#_1083 - documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml: -k option added In the section 2.1.1 BitBake I added a paragraph at the end of the discussion about BitBake explaining the benefits of the '-k' and '--continue' options. (From yocto-docs rev: 409e01cedbe8d93c29856fa2a49d5f9db91f5201) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml') diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml index 6d7b016af8..6b3289ab08 100644 --- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml +++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml @@ -73,6 +73,14 @@ So for example, before building matchbox-desktop BitBake would build a cross compiler and glibc if they had not already been built. + + A useful BitBake option to consider is the -k or + ‐‐continue option. + This option instructs BitBake to try and continue processing the job as much + as possible even after encountering an error. When an error occurs the target that + failed and those that depend on it cannot be remade. However, when you use this + option other dependencies can still be processed. + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf