From 60d48922fafc8b0a046c6d2f48dbf887dd383799 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:07:23 -0600 Subject: documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml: edits to BBMASK Some edits to the text of this moved section. (From yocto-docs rev: 69ba05bbdc8a6fb74efdfbb3214a562e564f5a68) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'documentation') diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml index 793b4c78c6..89e98daf8b 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml @@ -1993,10 +1993,17 @@ so that there are some definite steps on how to do this. I need more detail her
Excluding Packages From the Build + + You might find that there are groups of recipes you want to filter + out of the build process. + For example, recipes you know you will never use or want should not + be part of the build. + Removing these recipes from parsing speeds up parts of the build. + + It is possible to filter or mask out .bb and - .bbappend files such that BitBake ignores them during - the build. + .bbappend files. You can do this by providing an expression with the BBMASK variable. @@ -2006,7 +2013,7 @@ so that there are some definite steps on how to do this. I need more detail her Here, all .bb and .bbappend files in the directory that match the expression are ignored during the build - process - BitBake does not even parse them. + process.
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