ast/BBHandler/build: Add support for removing tasks (deltask)

Back in the depths of time we did support task removal. In the pre
AST days it was nearly impossible to continue supporting it, it wasn't
used so it was dropped. With the modern codebase we can easily now support
deltask and it would be very useful within the metadata since it can
massively simplify dependency trees.

As an example, a core-image-sato had 47703 inter task dependencies before
this patch and a patch to native.bbclass, afterwards with the noexec tasks
deleted, we had 29883. Such a significant simplification is worthwhile
and justifies adding a deltask operation to the system.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/bb/build.py b/lib/bb/build.py
index 92c45a38c9..6b395264b6 100644
--- a/lib/bb/build.py
+++ b/lib/bb/build.py
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ def stampfile(taskname, d, file_name = None):
     """
     return stamp_internal(taskname, d, file_name)
 
-def add_tasks(tasklist, d):
+def add_tasks(tasklist, deltasklist, d):
     task_deps = d.getVar('_task_deps')
     if not task_deps:
         task_deps = {}
@@ -633,6 +633,10 @@ def add_tasks(tasklist, d):
 
     for task in tasklist:
         task = d.expand(task)
+
+        if task in deltasklist:
+            continue
+
         d.setVarFlag(task, 'task', 1)
 
         if not task in task_deps['tasks']: