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| author | Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2011-05-19 07:56:16 -0500 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2011-05-23 15:53:29 +0100 |
| commit | 0eb49324c86e56727eb764bd9018bca0bf75c869 (patch) | |
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BUGID#_1083 - documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml: -k option added
In the section 2.1.1 BitBake I added a paragraph at the end of the discussion
about BitBake explaining the benefits of the '-k' and '--continue' options.
(From yocto-docs rev: 409e01cedbe8d93c29856fa2a49d5f9db91f5201)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml index 6d7b016..6b3289a 100644 --- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml +++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml @@ -73,6 +73,14 @@ So for example, before building <filename>matchbox-desktop</filename> BitBake would build a cross compiler and glibc if they had not already been built. </para> + <para> + A useful BitBake option to consider is the <filename>-k</filename> or + <filename>‐‐continue</filename> option. + This option instructs BitBake to try and continue processing the job as much + as possible even after encountering an error. When an error occurs the target that + failed and those that depend on it cannot be remade. However, when you use this + option other dependencies can still be processed. + </para> </section> |
