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.
-a, --tryaltconfigs
continue with builds by trying to use alternative providers
where possible.
-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
-lDEBUG_DOMAINS, --log-domains=DEBUG_DOMAINS
Show debug logging for the specified logging domains
-P, --profile
profile the command and print a report
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@hrw.one.pl>
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
November 19, 2006