BitBake

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BitBake
Written in	Python
OS	Linux
Platform	Cross-platform
Development status	Active
Genre	Build automation
License	GPL, MIT/X Consortium License
Website	developer.berlios.de/projects/bitbake

BitBake is a tool for the execution of tasks. It is derived from Portage, which is the package management system used by the Gentoo Linux distribution. It is most commonly used to build packages, and is used as the basis of the OpenEmbedded project

[edit] BitBake Recipes

BitBake recipes tell bitbake how to build a particular package. It includes all the package dependencies, sources to fetch the source code from, configuration, compilation, build, install and remove instructions. It also stores the meta data for the package in standard variables.