BITBAKE

NAME

BitBake − simple tool for the execution of tasks

SYNOPSIS

bitbake [options] packagenames

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the bitbake command.

bitbake is a program that executes the specified task (default is ’build’) for a given set of BitBake files.
It expects that BBFILES is defined, which is a space seperated list of files to be executed. BBFILES does support wildcards.
Default BBFILES are the .bb files in the current directory.

OPTIONS

This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (‘-’).
−h, −−help

Show summary of options.

−−version

Show version of program.

−bBUILDFILE, −−buildfile=BUILDFILE

execute the task against this .bb file, rather than a package from BBFILES.

−k, −−continue

continue as much as possible after an error. While the target that failed, and those that depend on it, cannot be remade, the other dependencies of these targets can be processed all the same.

−f, −−force

force run of specified cmd, regardless of stamp status

−i, −−interactive

drop into the interactive mode also called the BitBake shell.

−cCMD, −−cmd=CMD

Specify task to execute. Note that this only executes the specified task for the providee and the packages it depends on, i.e. ’compile’ does not implicitly call stage for the dependencies (IOW: use only if you know what you are doing). Depending on the base.bbclass a listtaks tasks is defined and will show available tasks.

−rFILE, −−read=FILE

read the specified file before bitbake.conf

−v, −−verbose

output more chit-chat to the terminal

−D, −−debug

Increase the debug level. You can specify this more than once.

−n, −−dry-run

don’t execute, just go through the motions

−p, −−parse-only

quit after parsing the BB files (developers only)

−d, −−disable-psyco

disable using the psyco just-in-time compiler (not recommended)

−s, −−show-versions

show current and preferred versions of all packages

−e, −−environment

show the global or per-package environment (this is what used to be bbread)

−g, −−graphviz

emit the dependency trees of the specified packages in the dot syntax

−IIGNORED_DOT_DEPS, −−ignore-deps=IGNORED_DOT_DEPS

Stop processing at the given list of dependencies when generating dependency graphs. This can help to make the graph more appealing

AUTHORS

BitBake was written by Phil Blundell, Holger Freyther, Chris Larson, Mickey Lauer, Richard Purdie, Holger Schurig

This manual page was written by Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin AT hrw DOT one DOT pl> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).