[yocto] naming .bb files

[Barros Pena, Belen]

Thanks Ross!

I've tried a .bb file name with capital letters and Hob is not liking it
at all. So it looks like uppercase might also be a problem.

Belen

On 08/07/2013 16:37, "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:

>On 8 July 2013 16:02, Barros Pena, Belen <belen.barros.pena at intel.com>
>wrote:
>> There seem to be certain rules regarding .bb files naming, but
>>apparently
>> those are not written anywhere. Some of those rules seem to be:
>>
>> * No spaces
>> * Underscores can only by used to separate name and version
>> * No ASCII special characters
>> * No non-ASCII characters
>> * No uppercase letters
>>
>> Does anybody know of any others we should be aware of?
>
>I wasn't aware of any restrictions on uppercase, but the recipe name
>part is probably restricted to ASCII alphanumeric (a-z, 0-9) and ASCII
>hyphens, then a underscore for the version separator, which is
>alphanumeric and periods.
>
>Ross
>
>

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