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143 lines
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.TH BITBAKE 1 "November 19, 2006"
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.SH NAME
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BitBake \- simple tool for the execution of tasks
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B bitbake
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.RI [ options ] " packagenames"
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.br
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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This manual page documents briefly the
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.B bitbake
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command.
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.PP
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.\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB<whatever>\fP and
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\fBbitbake\fP is a program that executes the specified task (default is 'build')
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for a given set of BitBake files.
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.br
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It expects that BBFILES is defined, which is a space separated list of files to
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be executed. BBFILES does support wildcards.
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.br
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Default BBFILES are the .bb files in the current directory.
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.SH OPTIONS
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This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
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options starting with two dashes (`-').
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.TP
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.B \-h, \-\-help
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Show summary of options.
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.TP
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.B \-\-version
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Show version of program.
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.TP
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.B \-bBUILDFILE, \-\-buildfile=BUILDFILE
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execute the task against this .bb file, rather than a package from BBFILES.
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.TP
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.B \-k, \-\-continue
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continue as much as possible after an error. While the target that failed, and
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those that depend on it, cannot be remade, the other dependencies of these
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targets can be processed all the same.
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.TP
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.B \-a, \-\-tryaltconfigs
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continue with builds by trying to use alternative providers where possible.
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.TP
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.B \-f, \-\-force
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force run of specified cmd, regardless of stamp status
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.TP
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.B \-i, \-\-interactive
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drop into the interactive mode also called the BitBake shell.
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.TP
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.B \-cCMD, \-\-cmd=CMD
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Specify task to execute. Note that this only executes the specified task for
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the providee and the packages it depends on, i.e. 'compile' does not implicitly
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call stage for the dependencies (IOW: use only if you know what you are doing).
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Depending on the base.bbclass a listtasks task is defined and will show
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available tasks.
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.TP
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.B \-rFILE, \-\-read=FILE
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read the specified file before bitbake.conf
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.TP
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.B \-v, \-\-verbose
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output more chit-chat to the terminal
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.TP
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.B \-D, \-\-debug
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Increase the debug level. You can specify this more than once.
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.TP
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.B \-n, \-\-dry-run
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don't execute, just go through the motions
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.TP
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.B \-p, \-\-parse-only
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quit after parsing the BB files (developers only)
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.TP
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.B \-s, \-\-show-versions
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show current and preferred versions of all packages
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.TP
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.B \-e, \-\-environment
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show the global or per-recipe environment (this is what used to be bbread)
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.TP
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.B \-g, \-\-graphviz
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emit the dependency trees of the specified packages in the dot syntax
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.TP
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.B \-IIGNORED\_DOT\_DEPS, \-\-ignore-deps=IGNORED_DOT_DEPS
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Stop processing at the given list of dependencies when generating dependency
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graphs. This can help to make the graph more appealing
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.TP
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.B \-lDEBUG_DOMAINS, \-\-log-domains=DEBUG_DOMAINS
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Show debug logging for the specified logging domains
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.TP
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.B \-P, \-\-profile
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profile the command and print a report
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.TP
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.B \-uUI, \-\-ui=UI
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User interface to use. Currently, knotty, taskexp or ncurses can be specified as UI.
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.TP
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.B \-tSERVERTYPE, \-\-servertype=SERVERTYPE
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Choose which server to use, none, process or xmlrpc.
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.TP
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.B \-\-revisions-changed
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Set the exit code depending on whether upstream floating revisions have changed or not.
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.TP
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.B \-\-server-only
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Run bitbake without UI, the frontend can connect with bitbake server itself.
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.TP
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.B \-BBIND, \-\-bind=BIND
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The name/address for the bitbake server to bind to.
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.TP
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.B \-\-no\-setscene
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Do not run any setscene tasks, forces builds.
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.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
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bitbake uses the following environment variables to control its
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operation:
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.TP
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.B BITBAKE_UI
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The bitbake user interface; overridden by the \fB-u\fP commandline option.
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.SH AUTHORS
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BitBake was written by
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Phil Blundell,
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Holger Freyther,
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Chris Larson,
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Mickey Lauer,
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Richard Purdie,
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Holger Schurig
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.PP
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This manual page was written by Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin@hrw.one.pl>
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for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
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