should yocto filename references start with a leading slash?

should yocto filename references start with a leading slash?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  currently reading ref manual, section 6, and i'm seeing filename
references of the form /meta-yocto/conf, /scripts/oe-setup-builddir,
and so on.

  is it really appropriate for those filenames to begin with a leading
slash? it seems unnecessary, and possibly a bit misleading. is there a
reason for those leading slashes?

rday

-- 

========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day                                 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
                        http://crashcourse.ca

Twitter:                                       http://twitter.com/rpjday
LinkedIn:                               http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday
========================================================================

Re: should yocto filename references start with a leading slash?

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday 06 November 2013 14:12:17 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   currently reading ref manual, section 6, and i'm seeing filename
> references of the form /meta-yocto/conf, /scripts/oe-setup-builddir,
> and so on.
> 
>   is it really appropriate for those filenames to begin with a leading
> slash? it seems unnecessary, and possibly a bit misleading. is there a
> reason for those leading slashes?

I'd have to agree, there should not be a leading slash. I see there are some 
paths in the reference manual where we use $HOME/poky/ as a prefix, those 
should probably also be removed.

Cheers,
Paul

-- 

Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre

Re: should yocto filename references start with a leading slash?

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

I searched through the YP doc set and removed as many leading slash characters that were being used in pathnames as possible.  There are a few "~" characters in some of the very specific examples that I left.  But for the most part, directory name usage is consistent now.

Scott

>-----Original Message-----
>From: yocto-bounces@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
>bounces@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Paul Eggleton
>Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 2:49 AM
>To: Robert P. J. Day; Scott Rifenbark
>Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org
>Subject: Re: [yocto] should yocto filename references start with a leading
>slash?
>
>On Wednesday 06 November 2013 14:12:17 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>   currently reading ref manual, section 6, and i'm seeing filename
>> references of the form /meta-yocto/conf, /scripts/oe-setup-builddir,
>> and so on.
>>
>>   is it really appropriate for those filenames to begin with a leading
>> slash? it seems unnecessary, and possibly a bit misleading. is there a
>> reason for those leading slashes?
>
>I'd have to agree, there should not be a leading slash. I see there are some
>paths in the reference manual where we use $HOME/poky/ as a prefix, those
>should probably also be removed.
>
>Cheers,
>Paul
>
>--
>
>Paul Eggleton
>Intel Open Source Technology Centre
>_______________________________________________
>yocto mailing list
>yocto@yoctoproject.org
>https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto