The base class is special in that every .bb
file inherits it automatically.
This class contains definitions for standard basic
tasks such as fetching, unpacking, configuring (empty by default), compiling
(runs any Makefile
present), installing (empty by default) and packaging
(empty by default).
These classes are often overridden or extended by other classes
such as autotools.bbclass
or package.bbclass
.
The class also contains some commonly used functions such as oe_runmake
.