From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: bitbake parsing of IMAGE_INSTALL += # tslib mtd-utils" extremely user unfriendly.
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:06:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1330261561.31855.6.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMvUbCwy5UL3YWXS=2SkeKff2WDQE9EX7-CGUv9s5SH+9uSK1g@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 23:00 +0100, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> bitbake can really braindump on us when we insert typo's. The result
> of bitbake 1.14 parsing this one wasn't pleasant:
>
> IMAGE_INSTALL += # tslib mtd-utils"
>
> (Yes, it's a typo. No, I wouldn't expect bitbake to give me that much
> output :) )
I agree we need to fix that. I've proposed a patch to bitbake which
would allow detection and a better error message for something like this
by enforcing quoting of variables. It is a major change in bitbake's
behaviour though so I'm taking feedback on whether we should make the
change.
Cheers,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-26 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-20 22:00 bitbake parsing of IMAGE_INSTALL += # tslib mtd-utils" extremely user unfriendly Leon Woestenberg
2012-02-21 12:56 ` Richard Purdie
2012-02-23 15:30 ` Eric Bénard
2012-02-23 15:32 ` Paul Eggleton
2012-02-23 15:38 ` Paul Eggleton
2012-02-23 16:06 ` Eric Bénard
2012-02-26 12:27 ` Richard Purdie
2012-02-26 13:06 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2012-02-26 19:35 ` Leon Woestenberg
2012-02-26 23:04 ` Richard Purdie
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