[yocto] LIC_FILES_CHKSUM: spaces in file names

[Mark Hatle]

On 5/15/18 7:25 AM, Damien LEFEVRE wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a base recipe generated with devtool.
> 
> The package I build has several license files which contain space characters in
> the file names.
> 
> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYRIGHT.md;md5=b229ca0c79785e9e86311477e7bdd9ea \
>                                          file://LICENSES/MIT
> License.txt;md5=3ba96e7848c3cedc5df2d00094a0d0f3 \
>                                          file://LICENSES/FreeImage Public
> License.txt;md5=ffcd65468a2d2b3e3e43fbaf63ceedf7 \
>                                          file://LICENSES/Boost Software
> License.txt;md5=2c7a3fa82e66676005cd4ee2608fd7d2 \
>                                          file://LICENSES/zlib-libpng
> License.txt;md5=09b00738058950409d6955872d715416 \
>                                          file://LICENSES/OpenSIFT
> License.txt;md5=7a69fc0ac94076df51f7db9b0c02fe7c \
>                                          file://LICENSES/ISSL
> License.txt;md5=1ba0d78ed416760e4a8ef3dc121e69c8"
> 
> Bitbake fails and seem to break at the first space character
> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM contains an invalid URL:
> License.txt;md5=3ba96e7848c3cedc5df2d00094a0d0f3
> 
> How can I deal with this? Any other options than renaming the files? 
> 
> I tried surrounding with quotes, "\ "using, nothing helps.

I've not tried it, but since these are URIs, did you try %20?

--Mark

> Thanks,
> -Damien
> 
>