6.6. BitBake Command Line

-6.6. BitBake Command Line

- Following is the BitBake help output: -
-$ bitbake --help
-Usage: bitbake [options] [package ...]
-
-Executes the specified task (default is 'build') for a given set of BitBake files.
-It expects that BBFILES is defined, which is a space separated list of files to
-be executed.  BBFILES does support wildcards.
-Default BBFILES are the .bb files in the current directory.
-
-Options:
-  --version             show program's version number and exit
-  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
-  -b BUILDFILE, --buildfile=BUILDFILE
-                        execute the task against this .bb file, rather than a
-                        package from BBFILES. Does not handle any
-                        dependencies.
-  -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
-  -c CMD, --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
-                        listtasks tasks is defined and will show available
-                        tasks
-  -r PREFILE, --read=PREFILE
-                        read the specified file before bitbake.conf
-  -R POSTFILE, --postread=POSTFILE
-                        read the specified file after 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
-  -S, --dump-signatures
-                        don't execute, just dump out the signature
-                        construction information
-  -p, --parse-only      quit after parsing the BB files (developers only)
-  -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
-  -I EXTRA_ASSUME_PROVIDED, --ignore-deps=EXTRA_ASSUME_PROVIDED
-                        Assume these dependencies don't exist and are already
-                        provided (equivalent to ASSUME_PROVIDED). Useful to
-                        make dependency graphs more appealing
-  -l DEBUG_DOMAINS, --log-domains=DEBUG_DOMAINS
-                        Show debug logging for the specified logging domains
-  -P, --profile         profile the command and print a report
-  -u UI, --ui=UI        userinterface to use
-  -t SERVERTYPE, --servertype=SERVERTYPE
-                        Choose which server to use, none, process or xmlrpc
-  --revisions-changed   Set the exit code depending on whether upstream
-                        floating revisions have changed or not
-