Customize yocto's build configuration output at start - yocto

Is it possible to customize the Build Configuration dump which is printed at the very beginning of each bitbake call? I'm using different flags and overrides to fine tune things like development/testing/deployment mode and I would to have these printed to the terminal to make sure I didn't miss stetting any important flags.
Is that possible? If yes, how can this be achieved?

The output of the Build Configuration is configured by the variable BUILDCFG_VARS defined in the bitbake.conf file.
You can i.e. append values to it in your local.conf. I think the output is evaluated early, so it might not use the values that would be used in a particular recipe.

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Step my script not its imports - functionality?

It is actually a credit to the strength of PyDev/ Eclipse that the debugger also steps through the corresponding parts of the imported numpy/pandas, at the places their functionalities are used by my script e.g. df = pandas.dataframe({...
But if I am confident that the imports work OK: Is there a way for the debugger to step only through my own 10 lines of script and not its imports? It would save a lot of inspection time.
(Eclipse for C/C++ on Windows 10 64bit)
Thank you!
There's actually such functionality available in the debugger, but it currently doesn't have an UI (still didn't have time to implement it).
Still, you can set an environment variable to use it.
I.e.: add an environment variable named PYDEVD_FILTERS (you can add it in the interpreter configuration or by editing your launch) and set it to be a list of paths which match the directories you want to ignore separated by ; (fnmatch style) -- those matches will be skipped by the debugger.
See: https://github.com/fabioz/PyDev.Debugger/blob/master/_pydevd_bundle/pydevd_utils.py#L191 as a reference for this (i.e.: pydevd_utils.is_ignored_by_filter).

Swift Command Line tool needs other file

So I have a script that takes an input and prints whatever. It needs access to a file written by a third party. My Xcode project structure is just two files, main.swift and ThirdParty.swift. If I just run it from Xcode main.swift happily sees ThirdParty.swift and I'm apply to instantiate an object defined within. When I run from the command line it cannot find ThirdParty.swift (which is pretty much to be expected; how would it know it's there?).
None of the command line options to pass to /usr/bin/swift seem to be appropriate for pointing to a file I'd like to use and pointing it to the current directory doesn't work either. Is this even possible or should I just give up?
The ideal end result is the ability to do something like:
./main.swift --option1 --option2 thing
But an acceptable place to end up would be:
swift -X ThirdParty.swift main.swift --option1 --option2 thing
Where X is whatever option I need to be passing in.
You can't pass two files into "immediate" mode (swift REPL mode) but you have several other options:
Combine the files together on the fly into a temporary file (with e.g. /bin/cat)
Compile the two files into a normal binary with swiftc.
I recommend option 2, though it means every time you change the code you'll need to recompile, and the binaries it creates aren't portable between OS X and Linux.

Programmatically change text config files in Linux with minimal effort

I am looking for a tool that would ease the modification of text configuration files for tasks like:
Set ForwardAgent yes on /etc/ssh/ssh_config
Append HGUSER to AcceptEnv in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (that's more complex as it does accept several params, if yours is not alread there it should add it)
Most important:
running it several times should have no side effects.
if something looks weird, it should complain (for example if you find the same line several times in a file, or if the expected syntax does not match).
Is there any linux tool that can easily be used to automate things like this?
The whole point is to be able to write these config patches somewhere so you can deploy them on several machines or on a new machine when needed.
I would certainly do this with bash scripting. Here is a great tutorial.
http://linuxconfig.org/Bash_scripting_Tutorial
to change a line in a file you could do something like:
check the file exists
grep for the value you want to change - error if it appears multiple times or something
use sed to change that line
to append something to a file
check if file exists
grep to ensure it hasn't been appended to already
echo whatever >> file - the double greater than appends to a file
with each of these I would make a backup copy of the file first, just in case something goes wrong
You might want to have a look at the Unified Configuration Interface (UCI) used in Embedded Linux systems. If you have the flexibility to adapt the UCI format for your config files, this is pretty similar to what you are looking for.

Checking the value of Macro

Let's say one file is compiled and is in running mode and it is using some macro.Is there any way to check what value of the macro that is being used by the file.
eg if the file contains
-define(TIMEOUT,200).
From terminal how can i check what TIMEOUT definition is being used by the file.
Why I want is because suppose file is in running mode and i changed the macro definition in between and forgot to compile the file. I want to confirm what defintion it is taking.
Macros do not survive even the earliest stages of the compilation as the preprocessor substitutes them immediately in the source. You will have to define and export a separate function to see their values, something like:
macro_values() ->
[{'TIMEOUT',?TIMEOUT},...].
You can then call this from the shell and get the values that were substituted.

Setting TAP::Formatter::JUnit output filenames

Currently, running prove with TAP::Formatter::JUnit supports an environment variable PERL_TEST_HARNESS_DUMP_TAP that sets a path where a directory t/ will be created, and for each test file x, new files named x and x.junit.xml are created in the directory. I would like to be able to format the output filenames in a different way. Is there any way to do this?
A quick look at TAP::Formatter::JUnit::Session says "no" - there is no way to modify it without writing your own formatter, deriving off TAP::Formatter::JUnit and overriding its open_test method to point to your own session, which would, in turn, be derived off TAP::Formatter::JUnit::Session with its dump_junit_xml overridden to do what you want - but now you're modifying the entire dump (and thus don't need to rely on that environment variable if you prefer).
I guess all that derivation is a way, though probably not the way you thought/were hoping.