poky/bitbake
Richard Purdie 320b76cc47 bitbake: ast: Change deferred inherits to happen per recipe
Currently deferred inherits get processed once for all class extensions
as a minor speed optimisation. Unfortunately this limits our options for
being able to report deferred classes to our code.

There are two challenges with using our deferred classes in OE at present.
One is that PACKAGECONFIG values don't work well with class overrides like
class-native if there are deferred classes based on PACKAGECONFIG, such
as python support. The second is that toolchain selection is proving
problematic to implement due to interactions between the toolchain deferred
inherit, the class extensions and class overrides being very late.

By changing deferred inherits to be recipe extension specific, we open
the way to generate events and "peek" at where things will end up,
allowing the class overrides to be set earlier.

The class extension code is updated to use a deferred inherit for the
class extension inheriting so that it is still inherited last.

(Bitbake rev: 139f61fe9eec221745184a14b3618d2dfa650b91)

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2025-06-11 08:17:34 -07:00
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bin bitbake: bitbake-diffsigs: fix handling when finding only a single sigfile 2025-03-08 06:22:56 -08:00
contrib bitbake: contrib/vim: Syntax improvements 2023-12-23 16:20:25 +00:00
doc bitbake: bitbake: doc/user-manual: Update the BB_HASHSERVE_UPSTREAM 2024-11-02 06:12:00 -07:00
lib bitbake: ast: Change deferred inherits to happen per recipe 2025-06-11 08:17:34 -07:00
.gitattributes bitbake: .gitattributes: Add to improve git diff for minified css/js files 2019-03-07 12:18:48 +00:00
AUTHORS misc: Update the email address to a working one. 2011-01-04 14:36:54 +00:00
ChangeLog *: Fix typo in documentation 2010-08-04 16:12:39 +01:00
LICENSE bitbake: bitbake: Add initial pass of SPDX license headers to source code 2019-05-04 10:44:04 +01:00
LICENSE.GPL-2.0-only bitbake: bitbake: Add initial pass of SPDX license headers to source code 2019-05-04 10:44:04 +01:00
LICENSE.MIT bitbake: bitbake: Add initial pass of SPDX license headers to source code 2019-05-04 10:44:04 +01:00
README bitbake: doc: README: simpler link to contributor guide 2024-02-10 14:13:51 +00:00
SECURITY.md bitbake: SECURITY.md: add file 2023-10-24 12:49:56 +01:00
toaster-requirements.txt bitbake: Update toaster-requirements to add django-log-viewer==1.1.7 2023-10-15 09:12:05 +01:00

Bitbake

BitBake is a generic task execution engine that allows shell and Python tasks to be run efficiently and in parallel while working within complex inter-task dependency constraints. One of BitBake's main users, OpenEmbedded, takes this core and builds embedded Linux software stacks using a task-oriented approach.

For information about Bitbake, see the OpenEmbedded website: https://www.openembedded.org/

Bitbake plain documentation can be found under the doc directory or its integrated html version at the Yocto Project website: https://docs.yoctoproject.org

Bitbake requires Python version 3.8 or newer.

Contributing

Please refer to our contributor guide here: https://docs.yoctoproject.org/contributor-guide/ for full details on how to submit changes.

As a quick guide, patches should be sent to bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org The git command to do that would be:

git send-email -M -1 --to bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org

If you're sending a patch related to the BitBake manual, make sure you copy the Yocto Project documentation mailing list:

git send-email -M -1 --to bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org --cc docs@lists.yoctoproject.org

Mailing list:

https://lists.openembedded.org/g/bitbake-devel

Source code:

https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/

Testing

Bitbake has a testsuite located in lib/bb/tests/ whichs aim to try and prevent regressions. You can run this with "bitbake-selftest". In particular the fetcher is well covered since it has so many corner cases. The datastore has many tests too. Testing with the testsuite is recommended before submitting patches, particularly to the fetcher and datastore. We also appreciate new test cases and may require them for more obscure issues.

To run the tests "zstd" and "git" must be installed.

The assumption is made that this testsuite is run from an initialized OpenEmbedded build environment (i.e. source oe-init-build-env is used). If this is not the case, run the testsuite as follows:

export PATH=$(pwd)/bin:$PATH
bin/bitbake-selftest

The testsuite can alternatively be executed using pytest, e.g. obtained from PyPI (in this case, the PATH is configured automatically):

pytest