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
This is expected behaviour *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 813 ***
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...
Fixed in master: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commitFix/?id=64327ba9ea1d1cefab1bc35d456da68bc061dcf5