Bitbake Cheat Sheet - Revision history

Tim Bird at 00:17, 21 December 2012

2012-12-21T00:17:33Z

Tim Bird: The version of the bitbake manual in the yocto project src dir is definitely different from the one on the openembedded site.

2012-12-21T00:16:15Z

The version of the bitbake manual in the yocto project src dir is definitely different from the one on the openembedded site.

Tim Bird: Reverted edits by Wmat (talk) to last revision by Tim Bird

2012-12-21T00:14:54Z

Reverted edits by Wmat (talk) to last revision by Tim Bird

Wmat: Updated with information regarding the Bitbake manual definitive version being the one in the OE git repo. This is as per information provided by Rpurdie, who indicated that the manual in the YP source is auto generated from the manual in the OE git repo

2012-12-20T16:06:19Z

Updated with information regarding the Bitbake manual definitive version being the one in the OE git repo. This is as per information provided by Rpurdie, who indicated that the manual in the YP source is auto generated from the manual in the OE git repo

Tim Bird at 00:58, 4 December 2012

2012-12-04T00:58:42Z

Tim Bird: /* User interfaces */

2012-12-04T00:56:44Z

‎User interfaces

Tim Bird: /* User interfaces */

2012-12-04T00:56:04Z

‎User interfaces

Tim Bird: /* Additional bitbake-related commands */

2012-11-29T19:43:47Z

‎Additional bitbake-related commands

Tim Bird: /* Additional bitbake-related commands */

2012-11-29T19:43:15Z

‎Additional bitbake-related commands

Tim Bird: /* Additional bitbake-related commands */

2012-11-29T19:42:44Z

‎Additional bitbake-related commands

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 Here are some quick notes on bitbake syntax and rules.  For an exhaustive list of functionality, and
-longer descriptions, see the bitbake manual at: http://docs.openembedded.org/bitbake/html/  (note that this
+longer descriptions, see the bitbake manual at: http://docs.openembedded.org/bitbake/html/
-link goes to the OpenEmbedded version of the bitbake manual, which is a version from 2006 as of this writing.  A separate bitbake manual is included in source form in the yocto project source directory, under bitbake/doc.)
 == Command Line options ==

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 Here are some quick notes on bitbake syntax and rules.  For an exhaustive list of functionality, and
 longer descriptions, see the bitbake manual at: http://docs.openembedded.org/bitbake/html/  (note that this
-link goes to the OpenEmbedded version of the bitbake manual, which is a version from 2006 as of this writing.  A separate (yocto-specific?) bitbake manual is included in source form in the yocto project source directory, under bitbake/doc.)
+link goes to the OpenEmbedded version of the bitbake manual, which is a version from 2006 as of this writing.  A separate bitbake manual is included in source form in the yocto project source directory, under bitbake/doc.)
 == Command Line options ==
 Here are a few commonly-used command line options.

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 Here are some quick notes on bitbake syntax and rules.  For an exhaustive list of functionality, and
 longer descriptions, see the bitbake manual at: http://docs.openembedded.org/bitbake/html/  (note that this
-link goes to the OpenEmbedded version of the bitbake manual, which is a version from 2006 as of this writing.  This is the definitive version of the manual.  The Bitbake manual found in the Yocto Project is automatically generated from this one.
+link goes to the OpenEmbedded version of the bitbake manual, which is a version from 2006 as of this writing.  A separate (yocto-specific?) bitbake manual is included in source form in the yocto project source directory, under bitbake/doc.)
-−
 == Command Line options ==
 Here are a few commonly-used command line options.

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 Here are some quick notes on bitbake syntax and rules.  For an exhaustive list of functionality, and
 longer descriptions, see the bitbake manual at: http://docs.openembedded.org/bitbake/html/  (note that this
-link goes to the OpenEmbedded version of the bitbake manual, which is a version from 2006 as of this writing.  A separate (yocto-specific?) bitbake manual is included in source form in the yocto project source directory, under bitbake/doc.)
+link goes to the OpenEmbedded version of the bitbake manual, which is a version from 2006 as of this writing.  This is the definitive version of the manual.  The Bitbake manual found in the Yocto Project is automatically generated from this one.
 == Command Line options ==
 Here are a few commonly-used command line options.

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 {| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"
 |-bgcolor="#80c0d0"
-! User interface
+! style="width: 200px;" | User interface
 ! Type
 ! NOTES
 |-
-|bitbake <target> ''or''<br> "bitbake -u knotty <target>"
+|bitbake <recipe-or-image> ''or''<br> "bitbake -u knotty <recipe-or-image>"
 |scrolling text interface
 |This is the default user interface
 |-
-|bitbake -u ncurses <target>
+|bitbake -u ncurses <recipe-or-image>
 |text-window based interface
 |I couldn't figure out how to control or exit this interface
@@ Line 49: / Line 49: @@
 |This is a full graphical interface which includes selecting machine, distro, etc. and performing a build
 |-
-|bitbake -u goggle
+|bitbake -u goggle <recipe-or-image>
 |simple graphical interface
 |This is a simple graphical wrapper over the streaming text output of bitbake.  It's nice in that it shows collapsible trees for the logs for sub-tasks for each recipe.

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 |see: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/OE_bitbake-env_utility
 |-
-|bitbake -g -u depexp
+|bitbake -g -u depexp <recipe-or-image-name>
 |Show dependency information in a graphical interface
+|
 |}

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