From cec7cd31eac9facb4a3f5a51280fa7f1ee931064 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:34:16 -0600 Subject: user-manual-intro: Applied some minor edits to intro area. This was a commit of Bill's that I decided to apply. I did it by hand though. Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark --- doc/user-manual/user-manual-intro.xml | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/user-manual/user-manual-intro.xml b/doc/user-manual/user-manual-intro.xml index 93af35b7f..f7e6a69d8 100644 --- a/doc/user-manual/user-manual-intro.xml +++ b/doc/user-manual/user-manual-intro.xml @@ -9,13 +9,17 @@ 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 completing individual tasks + 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 -- cgit 1.2.3-korg