[poky] bitbake listtasks broken

[Tian, Kevin]

>From: Gary Thomas
>Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 7:38 PM
>
>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...
>

Previously python tasks were not logged, so do_listtasks get its output to the console.

Now all python and shell tasks are logged, that's why you see output in a log file now.

But I agree that it's not convenient to search WORKDIR for such information. I'm working
a fix by use bb.msg.note instead.

Thanks
Kevin