Bug 9865

Summary:	"inherit" invalid in .inc file when included in distro config
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake	Reporter:	Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly>
Component:	bitbake	Assignee:	Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium	CC:	poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, sgw
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	2.2 M3
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Patrick Ohly 2016-07-01 12:24:00 UTC

The "inherit" statement is not valid in global configuration files like a distro configuration. Using it there correctly triggers an error.

However, when the global configuration file includes some other .inc file and that file has such a statement, no error is printed. The line seems to get ignored silently.

Restrictions that apply to the actual usage should also be applied when parsing in include files.

Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2016-09-14 14:00:28 UTC

I placed a "inherit bash" at the end of meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc which is an incude file included by global configuration. I then see:

$ bitbake -p
ERROR: ParseError at /media/build1/poky/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc:50: Could not inherit file classes/bash.bbclass

which seems correct. How do I reproduce the problem you describe?

Comment 2 Patrick Ohly 2016-09-14 14:13:04 UTC

We ran into it when adding "inherit" to a distro configuration. But I can't reproduce that with current Poky either.

Let's assume that this was fixed somehow in the meantime or that the report was invalid.