Bug 6645

Summary: Bitbake does not accept # (comments) in the inherit line
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake Reporter: Laszlo Papp <lpapp>
Component: bitbakeAssignee: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Undecided CC: poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 1.1.2   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Yes (doc changes required)

Description Laszlo Papp 2014-08-22 12:50:55 UTC 
I am working with dylan where the ptest class is unfortunately very broken. :(

I was trying to work it around in my recipe by not using the class, and I wanted to add ptest to the inherit line as follows:

inherit foo # ptest

So that when we upgrade Yocto, I can just remove that comment, but bitbake complains about it. My workaround is to put this into a separate line, but it is more verbose than I like:

inherit foo
# inherit ptest
Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2014-08-28 14:38:10 UTC 
This has never been supported and would likely be hard to implement in a reliable way. I therefore don't believe its worth adding support for this when there is a simple workaround as you mention.