It was working a while back, now I've tried it and it fails like this: OE om-gta02@shr ~/shr-core $ bitbake -e -b virtual:native:/OE/shr-core/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gconf_3.2.3.bb ERROR: Unable to match virtual:native:/OE/shr-core/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gconf_3.2.3.bb (0 matches found): ERROR: Command execution failed: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/bb/command.py", line 101, in runAsyncCommand commandmethod(self.cmds_async, self, options) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/bb/command.py", line 308, in showEnvironment command.cooker.showEnvironment(bfile) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/bb/cooker.py", line 292, in showEnvironment fn = self.matchFile(buildfile) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/bb/cooker.py", line 957, in matchFile raise MultipleMatches MultipleMatches the same with relative path after virtual:native: OE om-gta02@shr ~/shr-core $ bitbake -e -b virtual:native:openembedded-core/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gconf_3.2.3.bb ERROR: Unable to match virtual:native:openembedded-core/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gconf_3.2.3.bb (0 matches found): ERROR: Command execution failed: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/bb/command.py", line 101, in runAsyncCommand commandmethod(self.cmds_async, self, options) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/bb/command.py", line 308, in showEnvironment command.cooker.showEnvironment(bfile) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/bb/cooker.py", line 292, in showEnvironment fn = self.matchFile(buildfile) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/bb/cooker.py", line 957, in matchFile raise MultipleMatches MultipleMatches path in -b without 'virtual:native:' works fine OE om-gta02@shr ~/shr-core $ bitbake -e -b openembedded-core/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gconf_3.2.3.bb I've tried to revert commit http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=9d4f95587424c9e2d3ef7891c8ac7007f8db1f00 from #1465, but still it doesn't work. And this is also slightly related to #1141.
Fixed in master: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=9d6790c4409dee4d08fe6a47450125c406d0ba32