Bug 4635 - bitbake does not interpret inline comments correctly
Summary: bitbake does not interpret inline comments correctly
Status: VERIFIED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: BitBake
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: bitbake (show other bugs)
Version: 1.5
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Medium normal
Target Milestone: 1.5
Assignee: Richard Purdie
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Reported: 2013-06-11 12:40 UTC by Stoicescu Cornel
Modified: 2013-10-01 14:41 UTC (History)
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Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

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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.