bitbake/
- The Source Directory
+ The Source Directory
includes a copy of BitBake for ease of use.
The copy usually matches the current stable BitBake release from the BitBake project.
- BitBake, a metadata interpreter, reads the Yocto Project metadata and runs the tasks
+ BitBake, a
+ Metadata
+ interpreter, reads the Yocto Project metadata and runs the tasks
defined by that data.
Failures are usually from the metadata and not from BitBake itself.
Consequently, most users do not need to worry about BitBake.
@@ -46,7 +48,7 @@
When you run the bitbake command, the wrapper script in
scripts/ is executed to run the main BitBake executable,
which resides in the bitbake/bin/ directory.
- Sourcing the &OE_INIT_FILE;
+ Sourcing the &OE_INIT_FILE;
script places the scripts and bitbake/bin
directories (in that order) into the shell's PATH environment
variable.