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

[Markus Lehtonen]

On 04/02/16 10:21, "Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

>On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 08:39 +0200, Markus Lehtonen wrote:
>> On 03/02/16 18:52, "Richard Purdie" <
>> richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > 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 was pondering this, too, but tried to make sure not to break
>> anything. I can e.g. grep through the layers in git.openembedded.org
>> and git.yoctoproject.org and see if there are any other recipes like
>> this and submit patches to change those.
>
>I think that might be the better option, thanks!

You were right. At least I didn’t find any other problematic recipes than ncurses. I sent patch for review:
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2016-February/116904.html

That should be merged at the same time as the [1/2] bitbake patch in order to avoid build failure.

Cheers,
   Markus