Found truncated file names under framework-mbed/features/FEATURE_BLE directories

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I am trying to move from PlatformIO 4 to PlatformIO 6 with the codebase from mbedOS 5.13.x.

While the changeover on platformio.ini to specify using mbedOS 5.15.06 ended up not difficult, I found a very strange issue where some of the filenames under framework-mbed/features/FEATURE_BLE directories are truncated and with 1970-1-1 file date too.

williamto@NZLT2300093:~/PIO/framework-mbed/features/FEATURE_BLE/targets/TARGET_NORDIC/TARGET_NORDIC_CORDIO/TARGET_NRF5x$ ls -lrt
total 32
-rw-r--r-- 1 williamto williamto   774 Jan  1  1970 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 williamto williamto  1920 Jan  1  1970 NRFCordioHCITransportDr
-rw-r--r-- 1 williamto williamto  2492 Jan  1  1970 NRFCordioHCIDriver.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 williamto williamto 11963 Jan  1  1970 NRFCordioHCIDriver.cpp
-rw-r--r-- 1 williamto williamto   575 Jan  1  1970 mbed_lib.json
drwxrwxr-x 4 williamto williamto  4096 Jul  3 09:21 stack

williamto@NZLT2300093:~/PIO/framework-mbed/features/FEATURE_BLE/targets/TARGET_NORDIC/TARGET_NORDIC_CORDIO/TARGET_NRF5x/stack/sources$ ls -lrt
total 132
-rw-r--r-- 1 williamto williamto 10125 Jan  1  1970 pal_uart.
-rw-r--r-- 1 williamto williamto 13734 Jan  1  1970 pal_twi.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 williamto williamto  7897 Jan  1  1970 pal_timer
-rw-r--r-- 1 williamto williamto  7884 Jan  1  1970 pal_sys.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 williamto williamto  4641 Jan  1  1970 pal_rtc.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 williamto williamto 11768 Jan  1  1970 pal_nvm.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 williamto williamto  7755 Jan  1  1970 pal_led.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 williamto williamto 27758 Jan  1  1970 pal_crypt
-rw-r--r-- 1 williamto williamto 10870 Jan  1  1970 pal_cfg.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 williamto williamto  7625 Jan  1  1970 pal_bb.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 williamto williamto  8566 Jan  1  1970 pal_bb_bl

The build will fail because the build system will consider the truncated files as “missing”.

I used git to check out the source code from GitHub - ARMmbed/mbed-os at mbed-os-5.15.6 and it seems there is no issue similar to the “filename of death”.

The PlatformIO development system is run on Ubuntu 22 directly on metal and not on WSL.

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You’re right, the package is indeed faulty:

https://dl.registry.platformio.org/download/platformio/tool/framework-mbed/6.51506.230421/framework-mbed-6.51506.230421.tar.gz

grafik
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So, that’s something for the PlatformIO people to fix. Can you file an issue in Issues · platformio/platform-nordicnrf52 · GitHub?

I think you can work-around it if you get a clean copy of mbedos 5.15.06 and then re-add the package.json file and platformio folder from the above PlatformIO package. You could then reference this clean / fixed package with a platform_packages like

platform_packages =
   framework-mbed@symlink:///home/user/mbedos_fixed

to reference /home/user/mbedos_fixed.

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