"-b" option doesn't need the full filename, correct?

"-b" option doesn't need the full filename, correct?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  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?

rday

Re: [bitbake-devel] "-b" option doesn't need the full filename, correct?

[Richard Purdie]

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