Many people don't understand the nuances of PATH, so help them by clarifying the warning and displaying the parsed PATH element-by-element.
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.bur...@intel.com> --- meta/classes/sanity.bbclass | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass index 765958e..5c69d54 100644 --- a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass +++ b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass @@ -390,7 +390,8 @@ def check_sanity(sanity_data): paths = sanity_data.getVar('PATH', True).split(":") if "." in paths or "" in paths: - messages = messages + "PATH contains '.' or '', which will break the build, please remove this." + messages = messages + "PATH contains '.' or '' (empty element), which will break the build, please remove this.\n" + messages = messages + "Parsed PATH is " + str(paths) + "\n" bbpaths = sanity_data.getVar('BBPATH', True).split(":") if "." in bbpaths or "" in bbpaths: -- 1.7.10 _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core