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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2011-08-29 05:36:03 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2011-08-30 17:27:37 +0100
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documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml: Updated logging mechanism
Per Darren's feedback on this new section I updated changes based on his comments. (From yocto-docs rev: a5bbba42ec0da5b2f83f7a64ac8eef466e9c89b3) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml
index b36526e..976f7f4 100644
--- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml
+++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml
@@ -375,20 +375,28 @@
<para>
Best practices exist while writing recipes that both log build progress and
act on build conditions such as warnings and errors.
- Depending whether you are creating recipes using Bash or Python, the mechanism
- differs:
+ Both Python and Bash language bindings exist for the logging mechanism:
<itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para><emphasis>Python:</emphasis> For Python functions BitBake
+ <listitem><para><emphasis>Python:</emphasis> For Python functions, BitBake
supports several loglevels: <filename>bb.fatal</filename>,
<filename>bb.error</filename>, <filename>bb.warn</filename>,
<filename>bb.note</filename>, <filename>bb.plain</filename>,
and <filename>bb.debug</filename>.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><emphasis>Bash:</emphasis> For Bash functions you use the
- <filename>echo</filename> command and prepend a diagnostic string that includes
- the loglevel followed by a colon character</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para><emphasis>Bash:</emphasis> For Bash functions, the same set
+ of loglevels exist and are accessed with a similar syntax:
+ <filename>bb.fatal</filename>, <filename>bb.error</filename>,
+ <filename>bb.warn</filename>, <filename>bb.note</filename>,
+ <filename>bb.plain</filename>, and <filename>bb.debug</filename>.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
+ <para>
+ For guidance on <filename>echo</filename> how logging is handled
+ in both Python and Bash recipes, see the
+ <filename>logging.bbclass</filename> file in the
+ <filename>meta/classes</filename> directory of the Yocto Project files.
+ </para>
+
<section id='logging-with-python'>
<title>Logging With Python</title>
<para>
@@ -426,14 +434,8 @@
<para>
When creating recipes using Bash and inserting code that handles build
logs you have the same goals - informative with minimal console output.
- Use the <filename>echo</filename> command and prepend the diagnostic string
- with the appropriate loglevel floowed by the colon character.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- For guidance on <filename>echo</filename> usage in Bash recipes, see the
- <filename>logging.bbclass</filename> file in the
- <filename>meta/classes</filename> directory of the Yocto Project files.
+ The syntax you use for recipes written in Bash is similar to that of
+ recipes written in Python described in the previous section.
</para>
<para>
@@ -441,21 +443,21 @@
The code logs the progress of the <filename>do_my_function</filename> function.
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
do_my_function() {
- echo "Running do_my_function()"
+ bbdebug 2 "Running do_my_function"
if [ exceptional_condition ]; then
- echo "NOTE: hit exceptional_condition"
+ bbnote "Hit exceptional_condition"
fi
- echo "DEBUG: got to point xyz"
+ bbdebug 2 "Got to point xyz"
if [ warning_trigger ]; then
- echo "WARNING: detected warning_trigger, this might cause a plroblem later."
+ warn "Detected warning_trigger, this might cause a problem later."
fi
if [ recoverable_error ]; then
- echo "ERROR: hit recoverable_error, correcting"
+ error "Hit recoverable_error, correcting"
fi
if [ fatal_error ]; then
- echo "FATAL: fatal_error detected"
+ fatal "fatal_error detected"
fi
- echo "Completed do_my_function"
+ debug 2 "Completed do_my_function"
}
</literallayout>
</para>
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