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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2014-04-14 17:56:23 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2014-04-21 23:03:19 +0100
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bitbake: bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml: Added section on pathname syntax
Added a brief subsection to the "Basic Syntax" section that describes the issue using the tilde character (~) when providing a pathname as part of a statement. BitBake does not expand this character like the shell does. We recommend to not use it in pathnames. (Bitbake rev: 8e4c5cee932c3f38d4147c59612d76ca0b002727) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -301,6 +301,29 @@
301 variable becoming the current date. 301 variable becoming the current date.
302 </para> 302 </para>
303 </section> 303 </section>
304
305 <section id='providing-pathnames'>
306 <title>Providing Pathnames</title>
307
308 <para>
309 When specifying pathnames for use with BitBake,
310 do not use the tilde ("~") character as a shortcut
311 for your home directory.
312 Doing so might cause BitBake to not recognize the
313 path since BitBake does not expand this character in
314 the same way a shell would.
315 </para>
316
317 <para>
318 Instead, provide a fuller path as the following
319 example illustrates:
320 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
321 BBLAYERS ?= " \
322 /home/scott-lenovo/LayerA \
323 "
324 </literallayout>
325 </para>
326 </section>
304 </section> 327 </section>
305 328
306 <section id='conditional-syntax-overrides'> 329 <section id='conditional-syntax-overrides'>