[oe] bitbake goes crazy when ...

[Matt Johnson]

Also, if BBFILES is not set or set incorrectly.

On 11/07/2010 02:26 PM, Yury Bushmelev wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Bitbake fails without any end-user readable diagnosting (just a lot of
> strange errors and tracebacks) when:
> 1) specifying non-existent DISTRO (I've mistyped and specified
> 'angsrom-2008.1' instead of 'angstrom')
> 2) specifying non-absolute path to TMPDIR (i.e. you can't use './tmp' as TMPDIR)
>
> I've found this when playing with my testbuilder script.
>
> Can/should we catch that errors and produce user-readable messages about this?
>
>    

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Matt Johnson
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of ECE
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