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| author |   Diana Thayer <garbados@gmail.com> | 2017-03-21 13:27:05 -0700 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-03-27 11:11:05 +0100 |
| commit | 921592026c69287cdb40ffd90944d5944f28e2c3 (patch) | |
| tree | ae4bdb90ea7d107f1c629f6bd3d74694d86b77f7 /doc | |
| parent | 824e73e0f3eaa96b4d84da7e31f9a17ce5c5d7ee (diff) | |
| download | bitbake-921592026c69287cdb40ffd90944d5944f28e2c3.tar.gz | |
main: Improve -v and -D option documentation
Expanded and clarify documentation for the -v, --verbose and -D, --debug
options.
[YOCTO #9962]
Signed-off-by: Diana Thayer <garbados@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-intro.xml | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-intro.xml b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-intro.xml index 7248a0bf4..5bbfc67f7 100644 --- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-intro.xml +++ b/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_<task>). + -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 |