[OE-core] "${bindir}" versus "${bindir}/*" ??

[Richard Purdie]

On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 04:40 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> in bitbake.conf, numerous variables like "FILES_${PN}" are
> initialized with a combination of directory variables, with two
> different forms:
> 
>   * ${bindir}
>   * ${bindir}/*
> 
> is there a functional difference between those two?  my wildly
> speculative guess is that if "*" works as it does in the shell, it
> would simply skip any hidden objects.  is that the difference?  since
> i don't see that clarified anywhere.

The former is recursive and the latter is not and will just match files
in the directory (unhidden ones at that).

Cheers,

Richard