Bug 4772

Summary:	When the project directory path contain @ character, the build fails
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake	Reporter:	Li Wang <li.wang>
Component:	bitbake	Assignee:	Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium	CC:	poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, razvanx.ionescu, sgw
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	1.5
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Don't know

Description Li Wang 2013-06-25 06:05:02 UTC

1. reproduce steps:
# mkdir poky_project@
# cd poky_project@
# source  /your/poky/path/oe-init-build-env
# bitbake xxx
2.
fail to build, when do_fetch package.
3.
in wr product, fail to configure.

Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2013-06-25 14:56:44 UTC

We don't support the @ in build directories. We should add this to the sanity checks already made for build paths and inform the user this is an unacceptable path at which point this bug can be resolved.

Comment 2 Richard Purdie 2013-06-28 09:26:48 UTC

Fixed in master http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=4707a74db3822f5ad26e720fa47dd011c5d32a1c so we now get an error message if this happens.

Comment 3 Razvan Ionescu 2013-10-02 09:51:27 UTC

Verified with: poky: 4707a74db3822f5ad26e720fa47dd011c5d32a1c

Now the error message is displayed as follows:

ERROR:  OE-core's config sanity checker detected a potential misconfiguration.
    Either fix the cause of this error or at your own risk disable the checker (see sanity.conf).
    Following is the list of potential problems / advisories:

    Error, you have an invalid character (@) in your COREBASE directory path. Please move the installation to a directory which doesn't include any @ characters.
ERROR: Execution of event handler 'check_sanity_eventhandler' failed