On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 20:35 +0100, Leon Woestenberg wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Richard Purdie > <richard.pur...@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 _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
