variable becoming the current date.
</para>
</section>
+
+ <section id='providing-pathnames'>
+ <title>Providing Pathnames</title>
+
+ <para>
+ When specifying pathnames for use with BitBake,
+ do not use the tilde ("~") character as a shortcut
+ for your home directory.
+ Doing so might cause BitBake to not recognize the
+ path since BitBake does not expand this character in
+ the same way a shell would.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Instead, provide a fuller path as the following
+ example illustrates:
+ <literallayout class='monospaced'>
+ BBLAYERS ?= " \
+ /home/scott-lenovo/LayerA \
+ "
+ </literallayout>
+ </para>
+ </section>
</section>
<section id='conditional-syntax-overrides'>