From: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
To: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>
Cc: OE Core mailing list <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: what shell programming constructs can we count on in .bbclass files?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:40:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1489581612.6396.94.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJTo0LZm4zR2f+2Wgvab0=dhdP-Mu-cDGihqh2_hnVvuaOVGmg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2017-03-15 at 11:05 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Our shell parser *should* be POSIX compliant. There are a few places
> where it isn't, but I believe those should be considered bugs. At the
> end of the day the shell is actually executed by /bin/sh or /bin/bash
> anyway, so as long as bitbake can parse it you can use anything.
Unfortunately bitbake has problems parsing useful things like $( ). Are
there open bugs about that and/or is it worth filing enhancement
requests?
--
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
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I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-15 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-15 10:44 what shell programming constructs can we count on in .bbclass files? Robert P. J. Day
2017-03-15 11:05 ` Burton, Ross
2017-03-15 12:40 ` Patrick Ohly [this message]
2017-03-15 13:34 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-03-15 14:48 ` Burton, Ross
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