Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH 0/1] Substitute '~' when naming anonymous functions

["Paul Barker" <paul@pbarker.dev>]

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On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:16:27 +0100
"Paul Barker" <paul@pbarker.dev> wrote:

> When looking at meta-linux-mainline in the layer index I realised that the
> recipe version shown were out-of-date. The most recent update log [1] showed
> that the layer had failed to parse. Looking at the log it was obvious that this
> was due to the path in which the layer had been cloned, not due to any issue in
> the layer itself. As git repositories on sourcehut use '~' as a prefix to the
> username in the URL, this character ended up in the local path to the layer.
> When bitbake parsed the recipes in this layer, the '~' character ended up in the
> function name generated for an anonymous Python function. Since '~' isn't a
> valid character in a Python function name we got a pile of errors.
> 
> We already have a translation table to handle characters which aren't valid in
> Python function names, we just need to add '~' to the table.
> 
> Paul Barker (1):
>   parse/ast: Substitute '~' when naming anonymous functions
> 
>  lib/bb/parse/ast.py | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

It helps if I include the URL rather than just leaving a dead
reference...

[1]: https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/layerupdate/9144821/

Thanks,

-- 
Paul Barker
https://pbarker.dev/

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