BitBake

Infobox Software
name = BitBake



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programming language = Python
operating system = Linux
platform = Cross-platform
status = Active
genre = Build automation
license = GPL, MIT/X Consortium License
website = [http://developer.berlios.de/projects/bitbake developer.berlios.de/projects/bitbake]

BitBake is a tool for the execution of tasks. It is derived from Portage, which is the package management system used by the Gentoo Linux distribution. It is most commonly used to build packages, and is used as the basis of the OpenEmbedded project

BitBake Recipes

BitBake recipes tell bitbake how to build a particular package. It includes all the package dependencies, sources to fetch the source code from, configuration, compilation, build, install and remove instructions. It also stores the meta data for the package in standard variables.

See also

* OpenEmbedded
* OpenMoko

External links

* [http://developer.berlios.de/projects/bitbake BitBake Homepage]
* [http://bitbake.berlios.de/manual/ BitBake User Manual]
* [http://www.vanille.de/tools/FOSDEM2005.pdf FOSDEM'05 presentation of BitBake and OpenEmbedded]
* [http://www.vanille.de/tools/FOSDEM2007.pdf FOSDEM'06 presentation of BitBake and OpenEmbedded]
* [http://freshmeat.net/projects/bitbake/ BitBake project details on freshmeat]