From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com [192.55.52.88]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D0EBE017FC for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2013 02:49:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 07 Nov 2013 02:49:27 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.93,651,1378882800"; d="scan'208";a="423666227" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.121.102]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 07 Nov 2013 02:48:57 -0800 From: Paul Eggleton To: "Robert P. J. Day" , Scott Rifenbark Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 10:48:56 +0000 Message-ID: <2732208.eD41GxcQ8I@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.10.5 (Linux/3.8.0-31-generic; KDE/4.10.5; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: should yocto filename references start with a leading slash? X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 10:49:30 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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