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The current mechanism for finding the bitbake binary assumes a directory structure which is identical to poky, where oe-core's meta and bitbake directories are at the same level. There can be a case where bitbake is used from elsewhere and in such cases the above mentioned assumption fails to hold, whereas this is totally allowed by the oe-init-build-env script which can take bitbakedir as an argument. The better approach is to allow bitbake to be derived from PATH, while keeping the older mechanism in place so it can be removed after tests are done in various environments. This makes more sense as toaster has also been launched from the same bitbake instance that is the one in PATH. [YOCTO #12891] (Bitbake rev: 15340edce23e63b060c75114d508e1f76757239c) Signed-off-by: Awais Belal <awais_belal@mentor.com> Signed-off-by: David Reyna <David.Reyna@windriver.com> 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: http://www.openembedded.org/
Bitbake plain documentation can be found under the doc directory or its integrated html version at the Yocto Project website: http://yoctoproject.org/documentation
Contributing
Please refer to http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/How_to_submit_a_patch_to_OpenEmbedded for guidelines on how to submit patches, just note that the latter documentation is intended for OpenEmbedded (and its core) not bitbake patches (bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org) but in general main guidelines apply. Once the commit(s) have been created, the way to send the patch is through git-send-email. For example, to send the last commit (HEAD) on current branch, type:
git send-email -M -1 --to bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Mailing list:
http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/bitbake-devel
Source code:
http://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/