Questions tagged [bitbake]

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.

From the manual:

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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How can I extract the environment variables used when building a recipe in Yocto?

I am working on a kernel module for a project using Yocto Linux (version 1.3). I want to use the kernel headers and the compiler and libraries from my Yocto project, but develop the kernel module without needing to run bitbake every time. My initial…
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OpenEmbedded - determine which packages changed

I am working with OpenEmbedded (Daisy) and trying to come up with a way to create a tarball of just the packages that have changed between two versions of a build. Is there a straight forward way to determine which packages have been rebuilt between…
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BitBake SRC_URI with + in the filename

I have a recipe that requires downloading a file with a + in the file name. It fetches and unpacks the file to a path matching the file name, as one would expect, but then attempts to work out of a directory without the +... extension. For…
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build yocto image with apache2

I have been using QorIQ-SDK-V1.5 to build image for p1020rdb. However, there's no apache in the image which is what I need. But I also noticed that there's recipe in meta-webserver for apache, and I could build it separately by "bitbake -b" option.…
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Image Library (IMGLIB) on Gumstix?

I need to run AprilTags C++ algorithm on gumstix using DSP image library. Without DSP, Algorithm is eating up 85% cpu with 4fps. I am trying to get TI Image Library IMGLIB on Gumstix with Yocto Project. I could not find any resources or hints how…
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Bitbake fails on do_package_qa error?

I am trying to write my own custom recipe. I am using Yocto Project with Bitbake. The following package when given bitbake apriltags commands does the following and throws error at do_package It successfully does the following…
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Bitbake fails on compiling gcc-cross

i am trying to compile gcc-cross with bitbake(openembedded classic, bitbake), but it fails on desktop-file-utils and accordingly on desktop-file-utils-native-0.16. Have installed libglib, and pkg-config shows me glib-2.0 as available.(Ubuntu 12.04,…
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Bitbake - Default BB base.bbclass does not define a useful default task?

I have a build question about bitbake as below: (1) I install bitbake in my default folder : /home/xiang/bitbake, and set'BBPATH' to /home/xiang/bitbake (2) Created two files for compiling:…
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in yocto selinux the selinux-image.bbclass fails

i am building a readonly rootfs from yocto and i need to add the selinux. i added inherit selinux-image #install SELinux packages IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " packagegroup-core-selinux " inherit selinux-image my_image.bb i added all the values from the…
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Yocto bitbake ERROR: quilt-native-0.66-r0 do_configure

My FPGA based design is based on Vivado 2020.2 and Yocto running on Ubuntu 2020.04.6 LTS. I have FPGA design A that builds successfully .bit and .xsa files successfully without any critical warnings and errors. Yocto builds successfully to create…
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Regarding bitbake recipie

What changes should make to enable dlt-system. In build folder dlt-system application is not generating. Manually by using command: cmake -D with dlt-system=ON it will generate but I need to generate while building please look at recipie image
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How to override inherit python functions in yocto with a shell function?

I have a problem, with a NPM package, I use the inherit npm but I don't need to pack it for the image, I need only to build (npm run build) it once and put the build output to the image. But if I remove inherit npm I get errors, same when I would…
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Recipe for MV BlueFox3 using Yocto and a minimal image

I am using MV BlueFox3 camera on a RaspberryPi4 and I am trying to write a .bb recipe which is going to install the necessary software for the camera. A quick setup guide is on the manufacturer website, but I can not get the first part to work. So…
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ERROR: Unable to parse conf/bitbake.conf: [Errno 2]

I am trying to use Yocto/poky with nneta-elbe to build a debian based custom linux image. I am getting this error: ERROR: Unable to parse conf/bitbake.conf: [Errno 2] file conf/bitbake.conf not found in…
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zc702 not BOOTing up my yocto created build

Any possible solution in this regard should be appreciated, I have yocto gatesgarth version running on Linux 20.04, have compiled my build successfully with no error messages but while trying to boot it up on board it does not blink blue led(not…