default-distrovars.inc: Set BBINCLUDELOGS to empty to disable printing failed task...

* the output is shown 3 times with default configuration and 5 times when --verbose
  is being used with knotty, there might be other use-cases where we actually need
  this, but until the logging is resolved better, setting this to empty looks like
  more reasonable option (considering that e.g. log.do_compile from chromium-x11
  can be over 50MB long, generating 150MB+ cooker log)

* more details in:
  https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14542

Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
index f91df632d5f9ba58b4bfa9e2f6f216cd9825f842..5035508b98429e6f46bd79fdd40880bd2924aa01 100644 (file)
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
@@ -33,8 +33,10 @@ BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS ??= "0"
 
 NO32LIBS ??= "1"
 
-# Default to emitting logfiles if a build fails.
-BBINCLUDELOGS ??= "yes"
+# Default logger already emits logfiles if a build fails, setting this to any non-empty value would just include more copies (prefixed with "|") in the output
+# https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14542
+BBINCLUDELOGS ??= ""
+
 SDK_VERSION ??= "nodistro.0"
 DISTRO_VERSION ??= "nodistro.0"
 

diff --git a/meta/conf/documentation.conf b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
index c5a38b07642ede25ab8986b5daa44c27d5e3396d..f4697e28d057f8e94c6f27b0f3832e938e0a6243 100644 (file)
--- a/meta/conf/documentation.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ BBFILE_COLLECTIONS[doc] = "Lists the names of configured layers. These names are
 BBFILE_PATTERN[doc] = "Variable that expands to match files from BBFILES in a particular layer. This variable is used in the layer.conf file and must be suffixed with the name of a layer."
 BBFILE_PRIORITY[doc] = "Assigns the priority for recipe files in each layer. Setting this variable allows you to prioritize a layer against other layers that contain the same recipe."
 BBFILES[doc] = "List of recipe files used by BitBake to build software."
-BBINCLUDELOGS[doc] = "Variable that controls how BitBake displays logs on build failure."
+BBINCLUDELOGS[doc] = "Variable that controls how BitBake displays logs on build failure. Set to empty if you don't want to have 2nd copy of failed task output (prefixed with '|') in the cooker log."
 BBINCLUDELOGS_LINES[doc] = "Amount of log lines printed on failure."
 BBLAYERS[doc] = "Lists the layers to enable during the build. This variable is defined in the bblayers.conf configuration file."
 BBMASK[doc] = "Prevents BitBake from processing specific recipes or recipe append files."