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On 01/25/2013 12:37 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 05:32:13PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 12:20 -0500, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 08:16:38AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>>   guessing just a copy and paste error, which currently generates:
>>>
>>> No, the recent change in bitbake to handle multiline comments slightly 
>>> different, i.e. stricter...
>>
>> Previously if you put something in place of that blank line uncommented,
>> bitbake might have ignored it under certain circumstances. This is
>> rather unexpected by users.
>>
>> We therefore made bitbake ask the users to say what they mean :)
>>
>> Its a bit of a short term pain but a win for usability after that.
> 
> Agree. Thanks.
> 


Think something like this in a bb file:

#FOO = "bar \
inherit something_important

Should the inherit be used or not? That is the question :)

This actually happened to "someone".

Philip