beaglebone build image fails

I follow the same process that I used a month ago and now I get this error after executing:
MACHINE=beaglebone ./oebb.sh bitbake cloud9-image
ERROR: Unable to parse conf/bitbake.conf: ParseError at /home/rfis/setup-scripts/conf/auto.conf:1: unparsed line: ‘MACHINE ?= beaglebone’
Whats up with this?

The latest version of bitbake insists on all strings being
properly quoted. Just change that line to read
   MACHINE ?= "beaglebone"
(the double quotes are the key)

i think all values need quotes around them now.

rday

Make sure you are on the master branch. This has been recently fixed.