Empty components in $PATH have the same effect as a . in $PATH, and are a common side-effect of inserting a misspelled or unset shell variable in $PATH.
Signed-off-by: Peter Seebach <peter.seeb...@windriver.com> --- meta/classes/sanity.bbclass | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass index 687ddeb..1384592 100644 --- a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass +++ b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass @@ -298,8 +298,9 @@ def check_sanity(e): if not check_app_exists("qemu-arm", e.data): messages = messages + "qemu-native was in ASSUME_PROVIDED but the QEMU binaries (qemu-arm) can't be found in PATH" - if "." in data.getVar('PATH', e.data, True).split(":"): - messages = messages + "PATH contains '.' which will break the build, please remove this" + paths = data.getVar('PATH', e.data, True).split(":") + if "." in paths or "" in paths: + messages = messages + "PATH contains '.' or '', which will break the build, please remove this." if data.getVar('TARGET_ARCH', e.data, True) == "arm": # This path is no longer user-readable in modern (very recent) Linux -- 1.7.0.4 _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core