Bitbake Cheat Sheet

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.

Command Line options
Here are a few commonly-used command line options.

User interfaces
Bitbake can be used with several different user interfaces. Here are some options:

.bb file syntax
This table lists some of the syntax found in recipe (.bb) files.