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BitBake is a simple 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.

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BitBake is a simple 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 is now managed using the Git source control system which can be obtained from git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake.git. Releases can be downloaded from http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/bitbake/ and the developer mailing list, bitbake-devel can be found at http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bitbake-devel.

The user manual is found in the docmentation directory within the source code.

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BitBake: example not found in the base feeds

I have a BitBake recipe (example_0.1.bb) with a do_install task where I attempt to install a .so file: do_install() { install -d ${D}${libdir} install -m 0644 ${S}/example.so ${D}${libdir} } FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/example.so" This fails…
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Why does my BitBake autotools recipe fail during do_configure?

I am attempting to create a fairly simple BitBake recipe that uses autotools, which you can see here: SUMMARY = "an example autotools recipe" LICENSE = "MIT" LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =…
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How to add HAProxy package into bitbake recipe

I am new to bitbake recipe. I am trying to add HAProxy package into bitbake. I am trying to create a recipe but not sure how to proceed with it. so far I have just made it till here: SUMMARY = "HAProxy support for NEXT" HOMEPAGE =…
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Bitbake git version and cmake

I have my nice recipe that fetch from a git repository the master. I have configured my sources and cmake as in this guide: http://brianmilco.blogspot.it/2012/11/cmake-automatically-use-git-tags-as.html and the objective is to have printed the git…
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Yocto Eclipse ADT plugin fails during configure

I'm trying to use the Yocto Project Eclipse ADT plugin using the manual as a reference with a standalone pre-built toolchain created by running bitbake -c populate_sdk, then running poky-glibc-x86_64--x86-toolchain-2.0.sh,…
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What does PACKAGES mean in a bbrecipe

looking over some bbrecipes such as vlc.inc or mesa.inc they have a part that says PACKAGES =+ "" eg: PACKAGES =+ "libvlc" or PACKAGES =+ "libegl-mesa libegl-mesa-dev .." but these packages are unavailable to bitbake or IMAGE_INSTALL="" they…
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Building a bitbake component locally

I am writing a component that goes into the yocto build, but during development I don't want to build the entire image. I want to checkout my component(in its own GIT repo), build it using the cross-compiler used for building the entire tree, and…
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do_rootfs failed while installing gstreamer-1.0 packages

I am facing do_rootfs failed while I am installing the package using yocto in final image. Tried options like INHIBIT_PACKAGE_STRIP but to of no use. How can I force do_rootfs to execute is there any option.
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Error while bitbake to create a ROS package for beaglebone

I am trying to compile the hello world program of ROS tutorials to beaglebone black using bitbake. I am using an Ubuntu PC and have setup the workspace as mentioned in the user manual provided in vmayoral github link I have modified the local.conf…
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Which documentation should I use to develop & test makefile based applications with Yocto?

I have installed Yocto, and successfully ran host-prepare.sh script. I want to know that, to develop makefile based applications, what to do next, should install toolchain or ADT or kernel & filesystem images? Is there any documentation which has…
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yocto: do_validate_branches() failure using SRCREV="${AUTOREV}" in a linux-yocto-custom

I'm setting up yocto v1.7.1 "dizzy" to build a custom Linux image from a customized Linux kernel revision checked into my local git repository. When going through the build process it fails during do_validate_branches() with the following error…
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Some git repos don't work with yocto/bitbake

Yocto gives an error when fetching : ERROR: Function failed: Fetcher failure for URL: 'git://github.com/robclark/libdri2.git;protocol=http;branch=master'. Unable to fetch URL from any source. ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:…
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Yocto bitbake Failed Tasks do_fetch Intel Galileo BSP

trying to get the Yocto part of the Galileo BSP going it does source ./iot-devkit-init-build-env yocto_build but then I run bitbake bitbake image-full it comes back with 33 failed tasks Summary: 33 tasks failed: …
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bitbake how to disable do_fetch function for particular recipe

In bitbake disable downloading the module from repository every time i compiles the module. compile the module not download it everytime. tried using noexec flag in the recipe but it didn't help. Regards Mayank
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Issues with bitbake for building Angstrom

The issue I'm having is that I'm trying to build an Angstrom image from scratch using bitbake (since Angstrom is now Yocto Compatible) but I've run into an error the moment I run the bitbake systemd-image Traceback (most recent call last): File…
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