Bug 1377

Summary: Escape new line even in a comment.
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake Reporter: Tomasz Gorol <gavian>
Component: bitbakeAssignee: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, sgw
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 1.1   
Hardware: JasperForest   
OS: x86_64   
Whiteboard: Patch our for review on mailing list
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: ---

Description Tomasz Gorol 2011-08-17 07:01:22 UTC 
To reproduce:
Empty lines are just new lines, no spaces or tabs.
---- Example file example.bb
# This is a comment \



and this is a comment too even though it doesn't look like.

---- eof
Comment 1 Saul Wold 2011-08-18 21:59:31 UTC 
This is expected behaviour

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 813 ***
Comment 2 Richard Purdie 2011-08-19 12:30:10 UTC 
I'm not sure this is a duplicate, this bug is about the fact that the blank lines aren't treated as the continuation of the multiline comment...