methodpool: Improve method already seen error message

The current error message is confusing, this improves it to explain the problem
and the possible ways to resolve it.

[YOCTO #2530]

(Bitbake rev: d316f28ed725ff40daa8771c1aa224ac46d5b224)

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Richard Purdie 2012-06-14 14:19:45 +01:00
parent 1faf02599a
commit 4ff6160d90
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@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ def insert_method(modulename, code, fn):
if name in ['None', 'False']:
continue
elif name in _parsed_fns and not _parsed_fns[name] == modulename:
error( "Error Method already seen: %s in' %s' now in '%s'" % (name, _parsed_fns[name], modulename))
error("The function %s defined in %s was already declared in %s. BitBake has a global python function namespace so shared functions should be declared in a common include file rather than being duplicated, or if the functions are different, please use different function names." % (name, modulename, _parsed_fns[name]))
else:
_parsed_fns[name] = modulename