bitbake: bitbake: BBHandler/ConfHandler: Improve multiline comment handling

Faced with an expression like:

 # Some comment \
 FOO = "bar"

what should bitbake do? Technically, the \ character means its multiline and
currently the code treats this as a continuation of the comment. This can
surprise some people and is not intuitive.

This patch makes bitbake simply error and asks the user to be clearer
about what they mean.

(Bitbake rev: 589d31ce41e019ee6a7cb6527d67bc76c0b6382a)

(Bitbake rev: 79c00fabe08b4c210a3bd81cfaffbc47ffdc2e2b)

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/parse/parse_py/BBHandler.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/parse/parse_py/BBHandler.py
index c585b60fee..88ad03960a 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/parse/parse_py/BBHandler.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/parse/parse_py/BBHandler.py
@@ -200,7 +200,10 @@ def feeder(lineno, s, fn, root, statements):
 
     if s and s[0] == '#':
         if len(__residue__) != 0 and __residue__[0][0] != "#":
-            bb.error("There is a comment on line %s of file %s (%s) which is in the middle of a multiline expression.\nBitbake used to ignore these but no longer does so, please fix your metadata as errors are likely as a result of this change." % (lineno, fn, s))
+            bb.fatal("There is a comment on line %s of file %s (%s) which is in the middle of a multiline expression.\nBitbake used to ignore these but no longer does so, please fix your metadata as errors are likely as a result of this change." % (lineno, fn, s))
+
+    if len(__residue__) != 0 and __residue__[0][0] == "#" and s[0] != "#":
+        bb.fatal("There is a confusing multiline, partially commented expression on line %s of file %s (%s).\nPlease clarify whether this is all a comment or should be parsed." % (lineno, fn, s))
 
     if s and s[-1] == '\\':
         __residue__.append(s[:-1])