Bug 3570

Summary:	Bitbake should probably not assume that '\' at the end of line means treat the next line as a comment silentlly
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake	Reporter:	Phlip Balister <philip>
Component:	bitbake	Assignee:	Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium	CC:	corneliux.stoicescu, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, sgw
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	1.4
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	---

Description Phlip Balister 2012-12-12 14:12:36 UTC

The following fragment in an image led to madness:

#    tools-debug \
inherit core-image

Bitbake treated the "inherit core-image" as part of the comment, which caused some serious confusion. At the very least, bitbake should suggest this is not likely to do what you expected.

Comment 1 Stoicescu Cornel 2012-12-13 17:16:39 UTC

Can you please give a more specific description of where you made the changes and the results obtained(a log file)?

Comment 2 Phlip Balister 2012-12-13 21:32:43 UTC

I made the changes in a custom image file.

Try adding a line like this:

# Some text \
Some line that should do something

and build the recipe. The second line will be treated as a comment.\

I'm Crofton on irc if you want me to talk you through an example you can use in oe-core.

Comment 3 Richard Purdie 2012-12-14 13:54:02 UTC

Patch out for review on the bitbake-devel list.

Comment 4 Richard Purdie 2013-01-21 13:51:07 UTC

Fixed in master: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=a5358511b1741e6abff1a8f5136f1c8662645fea (and preceeding patch)

Comment 5 Stoicescu Cornel 2013-02-25 16:48:04 UTC

There is a coherent error message that suggests the line is commented out. 
Verified in master:2cc4fe4a0874c42421b1bf3fa100160a9e60a9da