[oe] bitbake goes crazy when ...

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/11/7 Matt Johnson <johnso87 at crhc.illinois.edu>:
> 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?
>>

Probably better report this to the bitbake ML too.

Frans