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diff --git a/bitbake/doc/bitbake.1 b/bitbake/doc/bitbake.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e6cbe7df0e --- /dev/null +++ b/bitbake/doc/bitbake.1 @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- +.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps +.\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection +.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) +.TH BITBAKE 1 "November 19, 2006" +.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. +.\" +.\" Some roff macros, for reference: +.\" .nh disable hyphenation +.\" .hy enable hyphenation +.\" .ad l left justify +.\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins +.\" .nf disable filling +.\" .fi enable filling +.\" .br insert line break +.\" .sp <n> insert n+1 empty lines +.\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) +.SH NAME +BitBake \- simple tool for the execution of tasks +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B bitbake +.RI [ options ] " packagenames" +.br +.SH DESCRIPTION +This manual page documents briefly the +.B bitbake +command. +.PP +.\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB<whatever>\fP and +.\" \fI<whatever>\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, +.\" respectively. +\fBbitbake\fP is a program that executes the specified task (default is 'build') +for a given set of BitBake files. +.br +It expects that BBFILES is defined, which is a space seperated list of files to +be executed. BBFILES does support wildcards. +.br +Default BBFILES are the .bb files in the current directory. +.SH OPTIONS +This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long +options starting with two dashes (`-'). +.TP +.B \-h, \-\-help +Show summary of options. +.TP +.B \-\-version +Show version of program. +.TP +.B \-bBUILDFILE, \-\-buildfile=BUILDFILE +execute the task against this .bb file, rather than a package from BBFILES. +.TP +.B \-k, \-\-continue +continue as much as possible after an error. While the target that failed, and +those that depend on it, cannot be remade, the other dependencies of these +targets can be processed all the same. +.TP +.B \-f, \-\-force +force run of specified cmd, regardless of stamp status +.TP +.B \-i, \-\-interactive +drop into the interactive mode also called the BitBake shell. +.TP +.B \-cCMD, \-\-cmd=CMD +Specify task to execute. Note that this only executes the specified task for +the providee and the packages it depends on, i.e. 'compile' does not implicitly +call stage for the dependencies (IOW: use only if you know what you are doing). +Depending on the base.bbclass a listtaks tasks is defined and will show +available tasks. +.TP +.B \-rFILE, \-\-read=FILE +read the specified file before bitbake.conf +.TP +.B \-v, \-\-verbose +output more chit-chat to the terminal +.TP +.B \-D, \-\-debug +Increase the debug level. You can specify this more than once. +.TP +.B \-n, \-\-dry-run +don't execute, just go through the motions +.TP +.B \-p, \-\-parse-only +quit after parsing the BB files (developers only) +.TP +.B \-d, \-\-disable-psyco +disable using the psyco just-in-time compiler (not recommended) +.TP +.B \-s, \-\-show-versions +show current and preferred versions of all packages +.TP +.B \-e, \-\-environment +show the global or per-package environment (this is what used to be bbread) +.TP +.B \-g, \-\-graphviz +emit the dependency trees of the specified packages in the dot syntax +.TP +.B \-IIGNORED\_DOT\_DEPS, \-\-ignore-deps=IGNORED_DOT_DEPS +Stop processing at the given list of dependencies when generating dependency +graphs. This can help to make the graph more appealing +.\" +.\" Next option is only in BitBake 1.7.x (trunk) +.\" +.\".TP +.\".B \-lDEBUG_DOMAINS, \-\-log-domains=DEBUG_DOMAINS +.\"Show debug logging for the specified logging domains + +.SH AUTHORS +BitBake was written by +Phil Blundell, +Holger Freyther, +Chris Larson, +Mickey Lauer, +Richard Purdie, +Holger Schurig +.PP +This manual page was written by Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin@hrw.one.pl> +for the Debian project (but may be used by others). |