poky/bitbake
Nikolai Merinov b65452bda3 bitbake: parse: Forbid ambiguous assignments to ${.}, ${+}, and ${:} variables
Old code that parse variable names in assignment commands behave differently for
variables that ends with special symbol for single-character variable names and
multi-character variable names. For example:

  A+="1"   # Change variable ${A}, '+' glued to '='
  A+ = "1" # Change variable ${A+}

  +="1"    # Change variable ${+}, the '+' symbol not part of assignment operator
  + = "1"  # Change variable ${+}

New code would always assume that '.=', '+=', and ':=' is assignment operator.
As result code like the following would raise parsing error

  +="value"

While code with extra spaces would work as before

  + = "value" # Change variable ${+}

This change allow to catch issues in code that generate bitbake configuration
files in a manner like "echo ${VARNAME}+=${VALUE} >> conf/local.conf"

(Bitbake rev: 93059aad13a12cd69d86368795c88e5349197d5d)

Signed-off-by: Nikolai Merinov <n.merinov@inango-systems.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-02-05 12:11:01 +00:00
..
bin bitbake: bin/git-make-shallow: Fix syntax to work with older git versions 2025-01-10 09:10:06 +00:00
contrib bitbake: contrib/hashserv/Dockerfile: Add libgcc to image for runtime dependency 2024-10-25 15:40:54 +01:00
doc bitbake: doc: update releases.rst 2024-12-28 11:04:32 +00:00
lib bitbake: parse: Forbid ambiguous assignments to ${.}, ${+}, and ${:} variables 2025-02-05 12:11:01 +00:00
.gitattributes bitbake: .gitattributes: Add to improve git diff for minified css/js files 2019-03-07 12:18:48 +00:00
AUTHORS misc: Update the email address to a working one. 2011-01-04 14:36:54 +00:00
ChangeLog
LICENSE bitbake: bitbake: Add initial pass of SPDX license headers to source code 2019-05-04 10:44:04 +01:00
LICENSE.GPL-2.0-only bitbake: bitbake: Add initial pass of SPDX license headers to source code 2019-05-04 10:44:04 +01:00
LICENSE.MIT bitbake: bitbake: Add initial pass of SPDX license headers to source code 2019-05-04 10:44:04 +01:00
README bitbake: doc: README: simpler link to contributor guide 2024-02-10 14:13:51 +00:00
SECURITY.md bitbake: SECURITY.md: add file 2023-10-24 12:49:56 +01:00
toaster-requirements.txt bitbake: Update toaster-requirements to add django-log-viewer==1.1.7 2023-10-15 09:12:05 +01:00

Bitbake

BitBake is a generic task execution engine that allows shell and Python tasks to be run efficiently and in parallel while working within complex inter-task dependency constraints. One of BitBake's main users, OpenEmbedded, takes this core and builds embedded Linux software stacks using a task-oriented approach.

For information about Bitbake, see the OpenEmbedded website: https://www.openembedded.org/

Bitbake plain documentation can be found under the doc directory or its integrated html version at the Yocto Project website: https://docs.yoctoproject.org

Bitbake requires Python version 3.8 or newer.

Contributing

Please refer to our contributor guide here: https://docs.yoctoproject.org/contributor-guide/ for full details on how to submit changes.

As a quick guide, patches should be sent to bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org The git command to do that would be:

git send-email -M -1 --to bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org

If you're sending a patch related to the BitBake manual, make sure you copy the Yocto Project documentation mailing list:

git send-email -M -1 --to bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org --cc docs@lists.yoctoproject.org

Mailing list:

https://lists.openembedded.org/g/bitbake-devel

Source code:

https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/

Testing

Bitbake has a testsuite located in lib/bb/tests/ whichs aim to try and prevent regressions. You can run this with "bitbake-selftest". In particular the fetcher is well covered since it has so many corner cases. The datastore has many tests too. Testing with the testsuite is recommended before submitting patches, particularly to the fetcher and datastore. We also appreciate new test cases and may require them for more obscure issues.

To run the tests "zstd" and "git" must be installed.

The assumption is made that this testsuite is run from an initialized OpenEmbedded build environment (i.e. source oe-init-build-env is used). If this is not the case, run the testsuite as follows:

export PATH=$(pwd)/bin:$PATH
bin/bitbake-selftest

The testsuite can alternatively be executed using pytest, e.g. obtained from PyPI (in this case, the PATH is configured automatically):

pytest