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4<title>3.1.1. BitBake</title>
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12<body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="section" title="3.1.1. BitBake">
13<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
14<a name="usingpoky-components-bitbake"></a>3.1.1. BitBake</h3></div></div></div>
15<p>
16 BitBake is the tool at the heart of the OpenEmbedded build
17 system and is responsible for parsing the
18 <a class="link" href="../ref-manual/metadata.html" target="_self">Metadata</a>,
19 generating a list of tasks from it, and then executing those
20 tasks.
21 </p>
22<p>
23 This section briefly introduces BitBake.
24 If you want more information on BitBake, see the
25 <a class="link" href="../bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual.html" target="_self">BitBake User Manual</a>.
26 </p>
27<p>
28 To see a list of the options BitBake supports, use either of
29 the following commands:
30 </p>
31<pre class="literallayout">
32 $ bitbake -h
33 $ bitbake --help
34 </pre>
35<p>
36 </p>
37<p>
38 The most common usage for BitBake is
39 <code class="filename">bitbake <em class="replaceable"><code>packagename</code></em></code>,
40 where <code class="filename">packagename</code> is the name of the
41 package you want to build (referred to as the "target" in this
42 manual).
43 The target often equates to the first part of a recipe's
44 filename (e.g. "foo" for a recipe named
45 <code class="filename">foo_1.3.0-r0.bb</code>).
46 So, to process the
47 <code class="filename">matchbox-desktop_1.2.3.bb</code> recipe file, you
48 might type the following:
49 </p>
50<pre class="literallayout">
51 $ bitbake matchbox-desktop
52 </pre>
53<p>
54 Several different versions of
55 <code class="filename">matchbox-desktop</code> might exist.
56 BitBake chooses the one selected by the distribution
57 configuration.
58 You can get more details about how BitBake chooses between
59 different target versions and providers in the
60 "<a class="link" href="../bitbake-user-manual/bb-bitbake-preferences.html" target="_self">Preferences</a>"
61 section of the BitBake User Manual.
62 </p>
63<p>
64 BitBake also tries to execute any dependent tasks first.
65 So for example, before building
66 <code class="filename">matchbox-desktop</code>, BitBake would build a
67 cross compiler and <code class="filename">glibc</code> if they had not
68 already been built.
69 </p>
70<p>
71 A useful BitBake option to consider is the
72 <code class="filename">-k</code> or <code class="filename">--continue</code>
73 option.
74 This option instructs BitBake to try and continue processing
75 the job as long as possible even after encountering an error.
76 When an error occurs, the target that failed and those that
77 depend on it cannot be remade.
78 However, when you use this option other dependencies can
79 still be processed.
80 </p>
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