[poky] bitbake listtasks broken

[Gary Thomas]

On 11/25/2010 04:06 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> Filed as bug #548
>
> This command [no longer?] produces any output:
> bitbake recipe -c listtasks
>
> $ bitbake qemu -c listtasks
> NOTE: Handling BitBake files: | (0756/0756) [100 %]
> Parsing of 756 .bb files complete (0 cached, 756 parsed). 913 targets, 34 skipped, 0 masked, 0 errors.
>
> OE Build Configuration:
> BB_VERSION = "1.11.0"
> METADATA_BRANCH = "local_master"
> METADATA_REVISION = "94b1fda09671b58aafb54983e4a6e499f6ffc369"
> TARGET_ARCH = "i586"
> TARGET_OS = "linux"
> MACHINE = "qemux86"
> DISTRO = "poky"
> DISTRO_VERSION = "0.9+snapshot-20101125"
> TARGET_FPU = ""
>
> NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
> NOTE: Preparing runqueue
> NOTE: Executing runqueue
> NOTE: Full skip list set([])
> NOTE: Running task 1 of 1 (ID: 0, /tmp/poky-amltd/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_0.12.4.bb, do_listtasks)
> NOTE: package qemu-0.12.4-r22: task do_listtasks: Started
> NOTE: package qemu-0.12.4-r22: task do_listtasks: Succeeded
> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 1 tasks of which 0 didn't need to be rerun and 0 failed.

To be fair, it does do something, but the results are hidden in
the temp/log.do_listtasks file.  Certainly not what the documentation
implies...

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