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5 .TH BITBAKE 1 "November 19, 2006"
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19 BitBake \- simple tool for the execution of tasks
22 .RI [ options ] " packagenames"
25 This manual page documents briefly the
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32 \fBbitbake\fP is a program that executes the specified task (default is 'build')
33 for a given set of BitBake files.
35 It expects that BBFILES is defined, which is a space seperated list of files to
36 be executed. BBFILES does support wildcards.
38 Default BBFILES are the .bb files in the current directory.
40 This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
41 options starting with two dashes (`-').
44 Show summary of options.
47 Show version of program.
49 .B \-bBUILDFILE, \-\-buildfile=BUILDFILE
50 execute the task against this .bb file, rather than a package from BBFILES.
53 continue as much as possible after an error. While the target that failed, and
54 those that depend on it, cannot be remade, the other dependencies of these
55 targets can be processed all the same.
57 .B \-a, \-\-tryaltconfigs
58 continue with builds by trying to use alternative providers where possible.
61 force run of specified cmd, regardless of stamp status
63 .B \-i, \-\-interactive
64 drop into the interactive mode also called the BitBake shell.
66 .B \-cCMD, \-\-cmd=CMD
67 Specify task to execute. Note that this only executes the specified task for
68 the providee and the packages it depends on, i.e. 'compile' does not implicitly
69 call stage for the dependencies (IOW: use only if you know what you are doing).
70 Depending on the base.bbclass a listtaks tasks is defined and will show
73 .B \-rFILE, \-\-read=FILE
74 read the specified file before bitbake.conf
77 output more chit-chat to the terminal
80 Increase the debug level. You can specify this more than once.
83 don't execute, just go through the motions
85 .B \-p, \-\-parse-only
86 quit after parsing the BB files (developers only)
88 .B \-d, \-\-disable-psyco
89 disable using the psyco just-in-time compiler (not recommended)
91 .B \-s, \-\-show-versions
92 show current and preferred versions of all packages
94 .B \-e, \-\-environment
95 show the global or per-package environment (this is what used to be bbread)
98 emit the dependency trees of the specified packages in the dot syntax
100 .B \-IIGNORED\_DOT\_DEPS, \-\-ignore-deps=IGNORED_DOT_DEPS
101 Stop processing at the given list of dependencies when generating dependency
102 graphs. This can help to make the graph more appealing
104 .B \-lDEBUG_DOMAINS, \-\-log-domains=DEBUG_DOMAINS
105 Show debug logging for the specified logging domains
108 profile the command and print a report
112 BitBake was written by
120 This manual page was written by Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin@hrw.one.pl>
121 for the Debian project (but may be used by others).