From ef098d575e8c6343be48fbd6dbeb96bb5492fcfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 08:03:59 -0700 Subject: documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-structure.xml: Updated BitBake The description of how BitBake is run and where its executable and wrapper script reside has been updated to be more accurate. Reported-by: Robert J. P. Day (From yocto-docs rev: 885b4c42a3ec3d228f1f5659a887627f4fe2d939) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-structure.xml | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-structure.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-structure.xml index 97ecf2a70f..d58ebc0b71 100644 --- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-structure.xml +++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-structure.xml @@ -30,17 +30,22 @@ The copy usually matches the current stable BitBake release from the BitBake project. BitBake, a metadata interpreter, reads the Yocto Project metadata and runs the tasks defined by that data. - Failures are usually from the metadata and not - from BitBake itself. + Failures are usually from the metadata and not from BitBake itself. Consequently, most users do not need to worry about BitBake. - The bitbake/bin/ directory is placed - into the shell's PATH environment variable by the - oe-init-build-env script. + + + + When you run the bitbake command, the wrapper script in + scripts/ is executed to run the main BitBake executable, + which resides in the bitbake/bin/ directory. + Sourcing the oe-init-build-env + script places the BitBake wrapper into the shell's PATH environment + variable. For more information on BitBake, see the BitBake on-line manual at - . + . -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf