An empty distro value leads to OVERRIDES and FILESOVERRIDES containing "::" entries which causes odd issues such as files being included when they shouldn't be. We could put in anonymous python to guard against empty entries but its messy and setting a default value for DISTRO to something harmless is much easier.
This patch adds a weak default and ensures the sanity test doesn't complain about it. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> --- diff --git a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass index b8e5b02..83378b0 100644 --- a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass +++ b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass @@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ def check_sanity_everybuild(status, d): # Check that the DISTRO is valid, if set # need to take into account DISTRO renaming DISTRO distro = d.getVar('DISTRO', True) - if distro: + if distro and distro != "nodistro": if not ( check_conf_exists("conf/distro/${DISTRO}.conf", d) or check_conf_exists("conf/distro/include/${DISTRO}.inc", d) ): status.addresult("DISTRO '%s' not found. Please set a valid DISTRO in your local.conf\n" % d.getVar("DISTRO", True)) diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf index d7b7a4b..ea313ad 100644 --- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf +++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf @@ -656,6 +656,10 @@ AUTO_LIBNAME_PKGS = "${PACKAGES}" ### Config file processing ### +# An empty distro leads to :: entries in OVERRIDES and FILEOVERRIDES which +# is a bad idea. Setting a dummy value is better than a ton of anonymous python. +DISTRO ??= "nodistro" + # Overrides are processed left to right, so the ones that are named later take precedence. # You generally want them to go from least to most specific. # _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core