<title>BitBake</title>
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- BitBake is the tool at the heart of the OpenEmbedded build system and is responsible
- for parsing the metadata, generating a list of tasks from it,
- and then executing those tasks.
- To see a list of the options BitBake supports, use the following help command:
+ BitBake is the tool at the heart of the OpenEmbedded build system
+ and is responsible for parsing the
+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#metadata'>Metadata</ulink>,
+ generating a list of tasks from it, and then executing those tasks.
+ To see a list of the options BitBake supports, use the following
+ help command:
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$ bitbake --help
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