i'm working on at91sam9263 with BSP from atmel having openembedded and bitbake for building images .I've configured almost everything according to the openembedded user manual , except that instead of svn for bitbake , I've manually downloaded n installed bitbake-1.8.12 , also the OE tree is as expected . I've edit the local.sample.conf copied in conf/local.conf , according to the supported machines I've got at91sam9263ek.conf in conf/machines/at91sam9263ek.conf .
When i issue bitbake it gives :
ERROR: Unable to parse conf/bitbake.conf (conf/local.conf:68: unparsed line: ' MACHINE = "at91sam9263"')

also I've set all the env vars properly ,I've even set PATH for at91sam9263ek.conf , as bitbake runs scripts that it itself makes on the fly , theres no way to check how n which script is running to check on the error msg .
Bitbake.conf accesses local.conf which in turn access at91sam9263ek.conf . bitbake does this through MACHINE variable , but i dont seem to get from where its getting the value for it .

waiting eagerly for responses ,

thanks