Bug 11571

Summary: yocto-compat-layer-wrapper: does not generate the output log when given the -o option
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] Meta-yocto Reporter: Libertad <libertad.gonzalez.de.la.cruz>
Component: meta-yoctoAssignee: Aníbal Limón <anibal.limon>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium+ CC: poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 2.4 M1   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Don't know

Description Libertad 2017-05-24 17:11:54 UTC 
DESCRIPTION:  
The yocto-compat-layer-wrapper does not pass down the option -o to the yocto-compat-layer.py since the log is not created. 

Also the yocto-compat-layer-wrapper calls on to source the oe-init-build-env every time you run it. this is confusing since to be able to run this command I required to source oe-init-build-env  before hand.

ENVIRONMENT SETUP:
1. commit 3e655f9c7f0f4f778dc9eedd9f7405fc84b4c9ad
2. Laptop OS ---> Debian 4.3.5-1~bpo8+1

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
1. clone poky from git
2. source oe-init-build-env build
3. yocto-compat-layer-wrapper LAYER_DIR ../meta-extras/ -o error.log
4. ls to see if the error.log file was created. No error log created
5. yocto-compat-layer-wrapper -o error.log LAYER_DIR ../meta-extras/ 
6. ls to see if the error.log file was created. No error log created
7. yocto-compat-layer.py LAYER_DIR ../meta-extras/ -o error.log
8. ls  error.log file was created successfully.

OUTPUT EXPECTED: 
since yocto-compat-layer-wrapper passes the values and calls internally yocto-compat-layer.py. I expected both scripts to give the same output and act the same.

When running yocto-compat-layer-wrapper like in step 3 and 5 it sources again the oe-init-build-env.

When running the yocto-compat-layer.py like in step 7 it does not source the oe-init-build-env 

Its confusing to have yocto-compat-layer-wrapper run the source every time you run it including when ran with the --help option.