From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cpanel7.indieserve.net (cpanel7.indieserve.net [199.212.143.8]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web11.3424.1588587994848669634 for ; Mon, 04 May 2020 03:26:35 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=missing; spf=pass (domain: crashcourse.ca, ip: 199.212.143.8, mailfrom: rpjday@crashcourse.ca) Received: from cpeac202e043973-cmac202e043970.sdns.net.rogers.com ([174.114.100.179]:48410 helo=localhost.localdomain) by cpanel7.indieserve.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1jVYIz-00Cwfk-Li for bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 06:26:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 06:26:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: BitBake developer list Subject: "-b" option doesn't need the full filename, correct? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel7.indieserve.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.openembedded.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cpanel7.indieserve.net: authenticated_id: rpjday+crashcourse.ca/only user confirmed/virtual account not confirmed X-Authenticated-Sender: cpanel7.indieserve.net: rpjday@crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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