Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fixes for len(TMPDIR) == 410

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

On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 11:38 +0200, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2016-04-06 11:30, Robert Yang wrote:
> > The following changes since commit
> > b2dc5a68e74dafedf7960ef77ad3d73912ed7960:
> > 
> >    bdwgc: use github repo for source location (2016-04-05 11:48:09
> > +0100)
> > 
> > are available in the git repository at:
> > 
> >    git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib rbt/long
> >    http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded-core-contrib/
> > log/?h=rbt/long
> > 
> > Robert Yang (2):
> >    sanity.bbclass: fix a hardcode in check_path_length()
> >    wget: fix build when len(TMPDIR) == 410
> > 
> >   meta/classes/sanity.bbclass         | 2 +-
> >   meta/recipes-extended/wget/wget.inc | 5 +++++
> >   2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> 
> How are these patches related and what is magic about a path length
> of 410?
> Are you sure that it might not be 569 on my system for example?

410 is the maximum we've ever managed to make work for the core
recipes. We're basically trying to ensure we don't get worse. In an
ideal world there wouldn't be any restrictions but that would take
significant resource investment for questionable return.

Cheers,

Richard