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author | Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2012-07-05 08:03:59 -0700 |
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committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-07-06 09:39:24 +0100 |
commit | ef098d575e8c6343be48fbd6dbeb96bb5492fcfa (patch) | |
tree | fa63005b8e91be7c1b10f596a0986cc6c6145bd2 /documentation | |
parent | d9302305faf4ec733dc9a98f91f5014eb814d62d (diff) | |
download | poky-ef098d575e8c6343be48fbd6dbeb96bb5492fcfa.tar.gz |
documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-structure.xml: Updated BitBake
The description of how BitBake is run and where its executable and
wrapper script reside has been updated to be more accurate.
Reported-by: Robert J. P. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
(From yocto-docs rev: 885b4c42a3ec3d228f1f5659a887627f4fe2d939)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-structure.xml | 17 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-structure.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-structure.xml index 97ecf2a70f..d58ebc0b71 100644 --- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-structure.xml +++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-structure.xml | |||
@@ -30,17 +30,22 @@ | |||
30 | The copy usually matches the current stable BitBake release from the BitBake project. | 30 | The copy usually matches the current stable BitBake release from the BitBake project. |
31 | BitBake, a metadata interpreter, reads the Yocto Project metadata and runs the tasks | 31 | BitBake, a metadata interpreter, reads the Yocto Project metadata and runs the tasks |
32 | defined by that data. | 32 | defined by that data. |
33 | Failures are usually from the metadata and not | 33 | Failures are usually from the metadata and not from BitBake itself. |
34 | from BitBake itself. | ||
35 | Consequently, most users do not need to worry about BitBake. | 34 | Consequently, most users do not need to worry about BitBake. |
36 | The <filename>bitbake/bin/</filename> directory is placed | 35 | </para> |
37 | into the shell's <filename>PATH</filename> environment variable by the | 36 | |
38 | <link linkend="structure-core-script">oe-init-build-env</link> script. | 37 | <para> |
38 | When you run the <filename>bitbake</filename> command, the wrapper script in | ||
39 | <filename>scripts/</filename> is executed to run the main BitBake executable, | ||
40 | which resides in the <filename>bitbake/bin/</filename> directory. | ||
41 | Sourcing the <link linkend="structure-core-script">oe-init-build-env</link> | ||
42 | script places the BitBake wrapper into the shell's <filename>PATH</filename> environment | ||
43 | variable. | ||
39 | </para> | 44 | </para> |
40 | 45 | ||
41 | <para> | 46 | <para> |
42 | For more information on BitBake, see the BitBake on-line manual at | 47 | For more information on BitBake, see the BitBake on-line manual at |
43 | <ulink url="http://bitbake.berlios.de/manual/"/>. | 48 | <ulink url="http://docs.openembedded.org/bitbake/html/"/>. |
44 | </para> | 49 | </para> |
45 | </section> | 50 | </section> |
46 | 51 | ||