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| author |   Bill Traynor <wmat@alphatroop.com> | 2013-01-28 10:07:54 -0500 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-01-13 22:00:24 +0000 |
| commit | a8234f1a7306052f02a227cd3fea054de7245ff2 (patch) | |
| tree | cee1f4aaa28bc960a93a20fe146820bf43aad9a2 | |
| parent | 304c4a77ac7dc1a0409113eb48b9c7f35ad2d040 (diff) | |
| download | bitbake-a8234f1a7306052f02a227cd3fea054de7245ff2.tar.gz | |
user-manual: Adding more information to the intro.
Added a few more sentences about BitBake, and how it's
organized using .bb, .conf, and .bbclass files.
Signed-off-by: Bill Traynor <wmat@alphatroop.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/user-manual/user-manual-intro.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/user-manual/user-manual-intro.xml b/doc/user-manual/user-manual-intro.xml index 9d8453aeb..b40987286 100644 --- a/doc/user-manual/user-manual-intro.xml +++ b/doc/user-manual/user-manual-intro.xml @@ -5,13 +5,16 @@ <section id="intro"> <title>Introduction</title> <para>BitBake is a tool for executing tasks commonly performed by software - developers when building systems on a daily basis. - BitBake can build Systems consisting of numerous individual pieces + developers when building embedded Linux systems on a daily basis. + BitBake can build systems consisting of numerous individual pieces of software, or can be used to build a single application. Example tasks that BitBake can execute are fetching source code, applying patches to source code, configuring, compiling, and - packaging applications into a complete system, and managing metadata. - BitBake abstracts the information for completeing individual tasks + packaging applications into a complete system, and managing metadata.i + Metadata is stored in recipe (.bb), configuration (.conf), and class + (.bbclass) files and provide to BitBake the instructions for which + sources to build and how to build them. + BitBake abstracts the information for completing individual tasks into files known as recipes. Recipes contain all of the relevant information required by BitBake to complete a given task including dependencies, source file |