Re: [PATCH 1/1] sanity.bbclass: check for validity of TMPDIR

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 11/14/13, 7:42 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 06:27 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> Also, is "-" actually valid?  I seem to recall having problems when my build
>> tree had the hyphen ("-") in the path.
>
> Paths with "-" in certainly work for me.  If there are any recipes which
> break in that situation then we should just fix them.

We found an issue with paths that -start- with a '-', there are apparently many 
places where paths are passed into various shell, and the initial '-' can be 
read as an argument identifier.

> OE already has quite a range of baroque restrictions on what sort of
> TMPDIR you are allowed to use (no nfs, no symlinks in the path, no
> spaces in the name) and every new prohibition represents a loss in
> usability.  This patch as proposed already forbids a whole range of
> characters, including things like "+", and I think that disallowing "-"
> as well would be a step too far.

I don't believe Qi Chen sent it to the list, but we built path names with all of 
the special characters and tried to run builds.  The specific list is based on 
the results of those tests.  The other items are already broken, and we're 
trying to be explicit with this for end users.  (Note, it's really the TMPDIR 
that matters.. the 'build' directory is a lot more flexible.)

--Mark

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