15280 2023-11-15 22:17:09 +0000 bitbake -b ignores bbappend files 2024-09-10 19:05:37 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime BitBake bitbake unspecified All Multiple RESOLVED OBSOLETE Medium minor 5.99 1 adrian.freihofer adrian.freihofer poky.bs.watcher poky.watcher randy.macleod ross.burton --- --- No (bug/feature does not impact docs) oldest_to_newest 97252 0 adrian.freihofer 2023-11-15 22:17:09 +0000 bitbake -b a-recipe Parses only the bb file but does not parse bbappend files. This makes this quick bitbake mode more or less unusable. This issue was found when working on https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/190731 To make the command even more useful a new option which allows to run only one task without the dependencies of the same recipe would be nice. The -b mode prints a warning: Buildfile specified, dependencies will not be handled. If this is not what you want, do not use -b / --buildfile. This is probably no longer needed. All users are used to call bitbake without -b, I guess. Also the documentation https://docs.yoctoproject.org/bitbake/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-intro.html#executing-a-task-against-a-single-recipe has a hint that this is not the standard option which should be used. 97262 1 randy.macleod 2023-11-16 15:41:11 +0000 Adrian, The append files didn't exist when -b was introduced. This is not a commonly used option. 97263 2 ross.burton 2023-11-16 15:43:18 +0000 I'm _really_ tempted to remove -b from bitbake entirely because it's got so many limitations, but I've a script that uses it :) 99539 3 adrian.freihofer 2024-08-11 13:20:55 +0000 The implementation of devtool ide-sdk, which was finally integrated into poky, does not use bitbake -b (https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/tree/scripts/lib/devtool/ide_sdk.py#n799). From this point of view, the issue could now be closed. 99638 4 randy.macleod 2024-09-10 19:05:37 +0000 See Adrian's comment.