[Openembedded-users] [PATCH 2/2] Raise a more descriptive exception when BBFILES is undefined

[Ben Gamari]

Previously an index out of range exception would be raised. It took
several minutes to finally pin-point this to a configuration issue
---
 classes/base.bbclass |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/classes/base.bbclass b/classes/base.bbclass
index fe8f7bc..0c3e724 100644
--- a/classes/base.bbclass
+++ b/classes/base.bbclass
@@ -773,6 +773,8 @@ python base_do_unpack() {
 def base_get_scmbasepath(d):
 	import bb
 	path_to_bbfiles = bb.data.getVar( 'BBFILES', d, 1 ).split()
+	if len(path_to_bbfiles) == 0:
+		raise bb.build.FuncFailed('BBFILES variable missing')
 	return path_to_bbfiles[0][:path_to_bbfiles[0].rindex( "packages" )]
 
 def base_get_metadata_monotone_branch(d):
-- 
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