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This implement the ability to use "{THISDIR}/my-layer" in the
"bb-layers" list. "{THISDIR}" is remplaced by the directory containing
the configuration file.
In small projects, we try to keep the setup a simple as possible: a
single git repo containing both the build confguration (e.g.
a bitbake-setup configuration file) and the meta layer with project
recipes/machine/distro.
This change allows this kind of setup:
├── meta-my-project/ # the project layer
└── my-project.conf.json # the bb-setup configuration file
by writing, in my-project.conf.json:
"bitbake-setup": {
"configurations": [{
"bb-layers": [
"{THISDIR}/meta-my-project"
Note: in this case meta-my-project is not present as a "source", so, not
handled by bb-setup update/status. It is expected of the user to handle
this on their own (is our case, a simple git workflow).
(Bitbake rev: b3153be29de8b8570b0c184369bd41f4c646cf92)
Signed-off-by: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Bitbake
BitBake is a generic task execution engine that allows shell and Python tasks to be run efficiently and in parallel while working within complex inter-task dependency constraints. One of BitBake's main users, OpenEmbedded, takes this core and builds embedded Linux software stacks using a task-oriented approach.
For information about Bitbake, see the OpenEmbedded website: https://www.openembedded.org/
Bitbake plain documentation can be found under the doc directory or its integrated html version at the Yocto Project website: https://docs.yoctoproject.org
Bitbake requires Python version 3.8 or newer.
Contributing
Please refer to our contributor guide here: https://docs.yoctoproject.org/contributor-guide/ for full details on how to submit changes.
As a quick guide, patches should be sent to bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org The git command to do that would be:
git send-email -M -1 --to bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
If you're sending a patch related to the BitBake manual, make sure you copy the Yocto Project documentation mailing list:
git send-email -M -1 --to bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org --cc docs@lists.yoctoproject.org
Mailing list:
https://lists.openembedded.org/g/bitbake-devel
Source code:
https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/
Testing
Bitbake has a testsuite located in lib/bb/tests/ whichs aim to try and prevent regressions. You can run this with "bitbake-selftest". In particular the fetcher is well covered since it has so many corner cases. The datastore has many tests too. Testing with the testsuite is recommended before submitting patches, particularly to the fetcher and datastore. We also appreciate new test cases and may require them for more obscure issues.
To run the tests "zstd" and "git" must be installed.
The assumption is made that this testsuite is run from an initialized OpenEmbedded build
environment (i.e. source oe-init-build-env is used). If this is not the case, run the
testsuite as follows:
export PATH=$(pwd)/bin:$PATH
bin/bitbake-selftest
The testsuite can alternatively be executed using pytest, e.g. obtained from PyPI (in this case, the PATH is configured automatically):
pytest