Many people don't understand the nuances of PATH/BBPATH, so help them by clarifying the warning and displaying the parsed list element-by-element.
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.bur...@intel.com> --- meta/classes/sanity.bbclass | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass index 765958e..52226f1 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: @@ -402,6 +403,7 @@ def check_sanity(sanity_data): "Please check your layer.conf files and other BBPATH " \ "settings to remove the current working directory " \ "references."); + bb.warn("Parsed BBPATH is" + str(bbpaths)); if sanity_data.getVar('TARGET_ARCH', True) == "arm": # This path is no longer user-readable in modern (very recent) Linux -- 1.7.10 _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core