CODEWITHSUNDEEP
yoctoopenembeddedrecipe
user18197
user18197

Reputation: 416

Make yocto skip a recipe instead of stopping

I have a recipe that does a check during parsing. What I would like to do is instead of issuing a warning or stopping with an error, I would like to make yocto completely ignore the recipe as if it was never there. It could still error out if some other recipe RDEPENDS on it, but otherwise parsing would be successful.

Is this possible to do?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 15936

Answers (3)

Sam Liddicott
Sam Liddicott

Reputation: 1386

Yes, you can, by raising bb.parse.SkipRecipe exception

python() {
  ...
  if ... :
    raise bb.parse.SkipRecipe("Message")
  ...
}

I don't find it well documented, but google does return some assuring results for this.

Upvotes: 1

Tomas Novotny
Tomas Novotny

Reputation: 1929

EDIT: I don't see a way to do it.

But you can "hide" specific recipe(s) using the BBMASK variable. The value is regexp for masking specific files or paths. You can also mask a whole directory.

We are using that mechanism and the variable is set in configuration file (distro configuration in our case, but it may be in a different configuration file).

You can find more information in the documentation for that variable: https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#var-BBMASK

Some examples copied from the linked documentation:

BBMASK += "/meta-ti/recipes-misc/ meta-ti/recipes-ti/packagegroup/"
BBMASK += "/meta-oe/recipes-support/"
BBMASK += "/meta-foo/.*/openldap"
BBMASK += "opencv.*\.bbappend"
BBMASK += "lzma"

Upvotes: 9

ɛIc_ↄIз
ɛIc_ↄIз

Reputation: 380

When bitbake launches, it first parses everything it can in order to figure out what does it have and are there any obvious errors. Only after this stage it analyzes what have you asked it to do. So if you have syntax errors there is no other way to avoid it except don't add the layer that contains invalid recipe to bblayers.conf.

Upvotes: 0

Related Questions