Re: bitbake parsing of IMAGE_INSTALL += # tslib mtd-utils" extremely user unfriendly.

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 20:35 +0100, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>         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.
>
> If we focus on our user interface view, that would mean this will no
> longer work:
>
> SOME_BINARY_VARIABLE = 1
>
> but that might be a better compromise than what we currently have.

FWIW, internally, that is still a string even if it looks a bit like a
binary value so there is no effective change.

Cheers,

Richard