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LIN7-74 : WRL6 and WRL 5 : long content in the environment variable PS1 causes bitbake commands to fail

Created: May 19, 2014 Updated: Mar 31, 2016

Resolved Date: May 19, 2014

Found In Version: 7.0.0.0.LB02

Fix Version: 7.0

Severity: Severe

Applicable for: Wind River Linux 7

Component/s: Build & Config

Description

WRL6 and WRL 5 : long content in the environment variable PS1 causes bitbake commands to fail
in particular 

bitbake -c menuconfig busybox 

causes the menuconfig not to happen or to be outputted very badly

Steps to Reproduce

configure --enable-rootfs=glibc_small --enable-kernel=standard --enable-board=qemux86-64 --enable-jobs=8 --enable-parallel-pkgbuilds=8 --with-rcpl-version=0003
export PS1=<very long content>
make bbs
bitbake -c menuconfig busybox

-> see the result