Bug 1322 - -k option allows bitbake to return 0 on non-existent target
Summary: -k option allows bitbake to return 0 on non-existent target
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: BitBake
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: bitbake (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All Multiple
: Medium normal
Target Milestone: 1.1
Assignee: Richard Purdie
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Reported: 2011-08-03 04:49 UTC by Paul Eggleton
Modified: 2011-08-10 06:30 UTC (History)
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Description Paul Eggleton 2011-08-03 04:49:22 UTC 
If you run bitbake -k doesnotexist the return code is 0:

------- snip -------
ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'doesnotexist'
NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 0 tasks of which 0 didn't need to be rerun and 0 failed.
paul@helios:~/poky/poky/build$ echo $?
0
------- snip -------

This can be bad for the autobuilder because tasks that actually failed look like they succeeded:

http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org:8010/builders/crownbay-noemgd/builds/27/steps/shell_10/logs/stdio