Bug 12299 - devtool help should short circuit (avoid) starting up bitbake.
Summary: devtool help should short circuit (avoid) starting up bitbake.
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: devtools / tool chain (show other bugs)
Version: 2.4
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Undecided enhancement
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Assignee: Paul Eggleton
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Reported: 2017-11-03 20:14 UTC by brian avery
Modified: 2017-11-09 15:50 UTC (History)
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Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

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Description brian avery 2017-11-03 20:14:06 UTC 
starting bitbake takes a bit and is useless for the help printout.
This is minor, though annoying if you do it a few times in a row :/
Comment 1 Paul Eggleton 2017-11-05 19:20:30 UTC 
I'm not sure we can do much about this. devtool supports extension through layers added to BBLAYERS and needs bitbake to tell it the final value of that variable - and that is needed for plugins to be able to register themselves and add arguments that are used to construct the help output.
Comment 2 brian avery 2017-11-09 15:50:45 UTC 
Paul's comment makes sense. Additionally, keeping bitbake server alive would alleviate the delay anyway.