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<p>Jsarao: Add some more cheats</p> <hr /> <div>==Intention==<br /> This page is intended to make the life of new developers easier. Feel free to add all your usual bitbake commands to this page<br /> <br /> ==Start a build==<br /> To get a package build just type<br /> bitbake foo<br /> where foo is the name of the package without any extension or version number.<br /> <br /> ==Clean up==<br /> bitbake -c clean foo<br /> This command will clean up your tmp dir for the given package. It is very useful if you work on a new .bb recipe. Without it your changes to the recipe may not work.<br /> <br /> ==Working with tmp/work==<br /> To recompile your source code if you change a line in it.<br /> bitbake -f -c compile foo<br /> The command above recompiled the code for foo. To build the ipk<br /> use the command below<br /> bitbake foo<br /> <br /> ==Check Recipe Version==<br /> bitbake -s | grep foo<br /> <br /> ==Check Bitbake Version==<br /> bitbake --version<br /> <br /> ==Run Bitbake A Little at a Time==<br /> bitbake -n foo<br /> # lists the tasks<br /> bitbake -c taskname foo<br /> <br /> [[Category:Dev]]</div>

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