Currently if you run bitbake in an invalid directory, the user experience
is poor:
birbake/lib/bb/main.py", line 427, in setup_bitbake
topdir, lock = lockBitbake()
File "./bitbake/lib/bb/main.py", line 494, in lockBitbake
lockfile = topdir + "/bitbake.lock"
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'
This ensures we exit straight away with a better error message.
[YOCTO #12163]
(Bitbake rev: 2a931d5e4ac092ce275f3a51e22b802689f511e6)
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Bitbake
BitBake is a generic task execution engine that allows shell and Python tasks to be run efficiently and in parallel while working within complex inter-task dependency constraints. One of BitBake's main users, OpenEmbedded, takes this core and builds embedded Linux software stacks using a task-oriented approach.
For information about Bitbake, see the OpenEmbedded website: http://www.openembedded.org/
Bitbake plain documentation can be found under the doc directory or its integrated html version at the Yocto Project website: http://yoctoproject.org/documentation
Contributing
Please refer to http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/How_to_submit_a_patch_to_OpenEmbedded for guidelines on how to submit patches, just note that the latter documentation is intended for OpenEmbedded (and its core) not bitbake patches (bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org) but in general main guidelines apply. Once the commit(s) have been created, the way to send the patch is through git-send-email. For example, to send the last commit (HEAD) on current branch, type:
git send-email -M -1 --to bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Mailing list:
http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/bitbake-devel
Source code:
http://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/