[yocto] should yocto filename references start with a leading slash?

Paul Eggleton paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Thu Nov 7 02:48:56 PST 2013


On Wednesday 06 November 2013 14:12:17 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   currently reading ref manual, section 6, and i'm seeing filename
> references of the form /meta-yocto/conf, /scripts/oe-setup-builddir,
> and so on.
> 
>   is it really appropriate for those filenames to begin with a leading
> slash? it seems unnecessary, and possibly a bit misleading. is there a
> reason for those leading slashes?

I'd have to agree, there should not be a leading slash. I see there are some 
paths in the reference manual where we use $HOME/poky/ as a prefix, those 
should probably also be removed.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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