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From: "Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [bitbake-devel] "-b" option doesn't need the full filename, correct?
Date: Tue, 05 May 2020 08:52:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6be4fcfc33a1e247a65c4c4a8dcef7d2d5a154f5.camel@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.2005040621420.6368@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, 2020-05-04 at 06:26 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   currently poring over BB user manual and noticed that the
> explanation of "-b" strongly implies that the argument for this
> option
> must be the full recipe filename, such as strace_5.5.bb, but it seems
> to work fine with just:
> 
>   $ bitbake -b strace
> 
> is that deliberate or accidental or an unintentional side effect that
> should be discouraged?

It does pattern matching so it only works like that if strace is unique
to a single filename. Try "gcc" ;-)

Cheers,

Richard


      reply	other threads:[~2020-05-05  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-04 10:26 "-b" option doesn't need the full filename, correct? Robert P. J. Day
2020-05-05  7:52 ` Richard Purdie [this message]

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