[OE-core] [PATCH] bin_package: fail if ${S} doesn't actually contain anything

[Christopher Larson]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:

> If the user is trying to use bin_package but the SRC_URI hasn't extracted
> anything into ${S}, which is easily done when writing a recipe by hand,
> instead
> of silently shippping an empty package abort the build.
>

I was thinking about this the other day, as it’s a long standing annoyance,
I think we should add a new pwd or cwd flag which is used in preference to
the last entry in `dirs` if it’s set, and which errors if the dir doesn’t
exist and isn’t listed in `dirs`, then drop `${S}` from dirs. Thoughts?
-- 
Christopher Larson
kergoth at gmail dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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