[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] sanity.bbclass: check for validity of TMPDIR

[Phil Blundell]

On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 06:27 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> Also, is "-" actually valid?  I seem to recall having problems when my build
> tree had the hyphen ("-") in the path.

Paths with "-" in certainly work for me.  If there are any recipes which
break in that situation then we should just fix them. 

OE already has quite a range of baroque restrictions on what sort of
TMPDIR you are allowed to use (no nfs, no symlinks in the path, no
spaces in the name) and every new prohibition represents a loss in
usability.  This patch as proposed already forbids a whole range of
characters, including things like "+", and I think that disallowing "-"
as well would be a step too far.

p.