Bug 9014

Summary: Can run "bitbake recipe" directly withtout initial
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang>
Component: coreAssignee: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Undecided CC: meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, richard.purdie, ross.burton
Version: 2.1   
Target Milestone: 2.1 M3   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Yes (doc changes required)

Description Robert Yang 2016-01-29 07:07:25 UTC 
Now, when we want to run the build, we have to:

. /path/to/poky/oe-init-build-env builddir

We need do this again when we want to build it in a new terminal. It would be better if we can run:

* "bitbake recipe" in a new terminal directly if the project had been initialized. (assume bitbake/bin is in PATH, or use /path/to/bin/bitbake recipe if not).

* "bitbake recipe" directly if no conf/local.conf was found in current dir or parent dirs. It can assume CWD is the builddir, and use default local.conf.sample  as local.conf, and we also can use something like MACHINE=foo bitbake recipe.
Comment 1 Robert Yang 2016-01-29 07:10:52 UTC 
This is something similar to make, if there is a Makefile in CWD, then we can run make directly.
Comment 2 Robert Yang 2016-01-29 07:46:21 UTC 
After talked with RP, bitbake does support run "bitbake recipe" without initial the build dir again if /path/to/bitbake/bin is in PATH.