Re: [OE-core] a few questions on the proper use of TEMPLATECONF

2014-08-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
short followup to my earlier post ... it seems like oe-setup-builddir doesn't do a whole lot of input validation. for fun, i tried to define a new project using /tmp for TEMPLATECONF, knowing there was nothing valid there to be used as sample files, and here's what i got (in part): cp: cannot s

[OE-core] a few questions on the proper use of TEMPLATECONF

2014-08-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
first time perusing all that templateconf stuff, so some admittedly simple questions. i'm looking at oe-setup-builddir, which is where the initialization of the new build dir is done, so let's start at the top: if [ -z "$BUILDDIR" ]; then echo >&2 "Error: The build directory (BUILDDIR)