[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 2/2] data_smart: handle '\x7d' in python parsing

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 12:33 +0200, Markus Lehtonen wrote:
> At least ncurses recipe uses a workaround (for former bitbake python
> parser) where closing curly bracket inside a python string was
> replaced
> by '\x7d' ascii code. The previous "curly bracket matching" patch
> broke
> parsing of constructs like this as bitbake wouldn't correctly find
> the
> closing bracket. This patch fixes this by accepting '\x7d' as a
> closing
> bracket.
> 
> Hopefully, this patch could be reverted (and the python regexp thus
> simplified) in the future after making sure that no recipes use the
> '\x7d' workaround, anymore.
> 
> [YOCTO #8849]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Lehtonen <markus.lehtonen at linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  lib/bb/data_smart.py | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

To be honest, the number of recipes which do this is hopefully very
very small and we should just go and fix them now?

I'm not sure we want to go ahead and support this.

Cheers,

Richard