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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: "${bindir}" versus "${bindir}/*" ??
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:45:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1332582359.9740.489.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1203240436510.20052@oneiric>

On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 04:40 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> in bitbake.conf, numerous variables like "FILES_${PN}" are
> initialized with a combination of directory variables, with two
> different forms:
> 
>   * ${bindir}
>   * ${bindir}/*
> 
> is there a functional difference between those two?  my wildly
> speculative guess is that if "*" works as it does in the shell, it
> would simply skip any hidden objects.  is that the difference?  since
> i don't see that clarified anywhere.

The former is recursive and the latter is not and will just match files
in the directory (unhidden ones at that).

Cheers,

Richard




  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-24  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-24  8:40 "${bindir}" versus "${bindir}/*" ?? Robert P. J. Day
2012-03-24  9:45 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2012-03-24 10:01   ` Robert P. J. Day
2012-03-24 11:26     ` Richard Purdie
2012-03-24 12:37       ` Robert P. J. Day

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