Bug 4635

Summary:	bitbake does not interpret inline comments correctly
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake	Reporter:	Stoicescu Cornel <corneliux.stoicescu>
Component:	bitbake	Assignee:	Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status:	VERIFIED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium	CC:	poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, sgw
Version:	1.5
Target Milestone:	1.5
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Stoicescu Cornel 2013-06-11 12:40:22 UTC

master:24d63bd57269f3142c57c2d697c56101f73b23dc

Replacing: 
MACHINE ??= "qemux86-64" 

with:
MACHINE ??= "qemux86-64"#test

or
MACHINE ??= "qemux86-64" #test

will result in a parse error:
ERROR: Unable to parse conf/bitbake.conf: ParseError at /home/cornel/work/2poky/build/conf/local.conf:51: unparsed line: 'MACHINE ??= "qemux86-64" #test'

Comment 1 Stoicescu Cornel 2013-06-11 12:43:52 UTC

Correction:

master:a62aed41f2d8f874f7ae24d0e5be5dbc66ea2199

Comment 2 Richard Purdie 2013-06-20 15:37:12 UTC

I was worried we might support these in some contexts (e.g. bb files) but not others (conf files). My tests show we don't support inline comments in any context. I think this is a reasonable thing for the parser to do so am marking this as not a bug.

Comment 3 Stoicescu Cornel 2013-10-01 14:41:56 UTC

Setting to VERIFIED as per above comment.