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<a name="ref-bitbake"></a>Chapter 6. BitBake</h2></div></div></div>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="ref-bitbake-parsing.html">6.1. Parsing</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="ref-bitbake-providers.html">6.2. Preferences and Providers</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="ref-bitbake-dependencies.html">6.3. Dependencies</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="ref-bitbake-tasklist.html">6.4. The Task List</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="ref-bitbake-runtask.html">6.5. Running a Task</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="ref-bitbake-commandline.html">6.6. BitBake Command Line</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="ref-bitbake-fetchers.html">6.7. Fetchers</a></span></dt>
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BitBake is a program written in Python that interprets the metadata used by the OpenEmbedded
build system.
At some point, developers wonder what actually happens when you enter:
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$ bitbake core-image-sato
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This chapter provides an overview of what happens behind the scenes from BitBake's perspective.
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<h3 class="title">Note</h3>
BitBake strives to be a generic "task" executor that is capable of handling complex dependency relationships.
As such, it has no real knowledge of what the tasks being executed actually do.
BitBake just considers a list of tasks with dependencies and handles metadata
that consists of variables in a certain format that get passed to the tasks.
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