Bug 2463

Summary: Usability: autotools: Provide config.log in the bitbake log for do_configure() failures
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] Meta-yocto Reporter: Darren Hart <dvhart>
Component: meta-yoctoAssignee: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Medium CC: infras.ab.watcher, Infras.watcher, laurentiu.serban, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, richard.purdie, song.liu
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 1.3 M2   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard: (P1)(patch review) Patch out for review
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: ---

Description Darren Hart 2012-05-16 16:12:59 UTC 
When we see do_configure failures in the build, the config.log will be helpful in resolving the issue. In the same vein as Bug 2034, this bug is about excavating the valuable information and including it in the buildbot failure email. In this case, inlining the config.log would be sufficient.
Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2012-05-16 19:53:55 UTC 
I'm not sure this is autobuilder specific, we should probably dump the config.log into the bitbake logs whenever we see the expression "please see config.log". I've lost count of how often I've said "please send me the config.log file as the real failure is there". We should be able to improve autotools.bbclass to do this if configure fails.
Comment 2 Darren Hart 2012-05-16 20:10:26 UTC 
Richard, ah that makes even more sense. Recategorizing.
Comment 4 Laurentiu Serban 2012-07-11 11:51:21 UTC 
Setting this to verified.
Tested in commit 6382732a7516c67cb1a3e3e438b06f4fc43efa4e