Running 'bitbake listtasks' doesn't produce any output $ bitbake qemu -c listtasks NOTE: Handling BitBake files: | (0756/0756) [100 %] Parsing of 756 .bb files complete (0 cached, 756 parsed). 913 targets, 34 skipped, 0 masked, 0 errors. OE Build Configuration: BB_VERSION = "1.11.0" METADATA_BRANCH = "local_master" METADATA_REVISION = "94b1fda09671b58aafb54983e4a6e499f6ffc369" TARGET_ARCH = "i586" TARGET_OS = "linux" MACHINE = "qemux86" DISTRO = "poky" DISTRO_VERSION = "0.9+snapshot-20101125" TARGET_FPU = "" NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies NOTE: Preparing runqueue NOTE: Executing runqueue NOTE: Full skip list set([]) NOTE: Running task 1 of 1 (ID: 0, /tmp/poky-amltd/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_0.12.4.bb, do_listtasks) NOTE: package qemu-0.12.4-r22: task do_listtasks: Started NOTE: package qemu-0.12.4-r22: task do_listtasks: Succeeded NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 1 tasks of which 0 didn't need to be rerun and 0 failed.
This is because all python tasks are logged now which are then placed into WORKDIR log file. work on a fix now
*** Bug 361 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=c0202071428fde6ef0a93de9c99d416624628813