The bitbake command is the primary interface to the BitBake tool. This chapter presents the bitbake command syntax and provides several execution examples.
For example, if you want to build a specific recipe, run the following command:
$ bitbake <recipe>
BitBake runs a set of scheduled tasks. When we wish to run a specific task, we can use the following command:
$ bitbake <recipe> -c <task>
If you want to clean a specific package (spitools
, for example), you just have to run this:
$ bitbake spitools -c clean
To list the tasks defined for a recipe, we can use the following command:
$ bitbake <recipe> -c listtasks
Here is a description of BitBake tasks:
do_fetch: The first step when building a recipe is fetching the required source. This is done using the fetching backend feature we discussed previously. It is important to point out that fetching source or a file does not mean it is a remote source. In fact, every file required during the...