Embedded Linux Development with Yocto Project
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Understanding the BitBake tool

The BitBake task scheduler started as a fork from Portage, which is the package management system used in the Gentoo distribution. However, nowadays the two projects have diverged a lot due to the different usage focusses. The Yocto Project and the OpenEmbedded Project are the most known and intensive users of BitBake, which remains a separated and independent project with its own development cycle and mailing list ().

As presented in to GNU Make in some aspects.

In this chapter, we cover the main aspects of BitBake tool. However, for more in-depth details about the tool, please refer to the BitBake User Manual.