Bitbake Cheat Sheet

bitbake <recipe_name>

Build the particular recipe which belongs to a package.
build a valgrind package. if recipe file is valgrind_3.6.0.bb.
Example: bitbake valgrind

bitbake -c <task> <recipe_name>

Run specific tasks for the particular package.
Default task: do_fetch, do_compile, do_install, do_build etc.
for only compilation of valgrind package
Example: bitbake -c do_compile valgrind

bitbake -c <task> <recipe_name>

Run specific tasks for the particular package.
Default task: do_fetch, do_compile, do_install, do_build etc.
for only compilation of valgrind package
Example: bitbake -c do_compile valgrind

bitbake -c listtask <package>

It shows all tasks for the package.

bitbake virtual/kernel -c menuconfig

It launches a graphical-based kernel configuration session.

bitbake -c cleanall <recipe_name>

Remove output, download and cache files of the package.

bitbake -c clean <recipe_name>

Remove only the output files of the package.

bitbake <image> -g -u taskexp

It shows package dependency for the image.
Example: bitbake core-image-minimal -g -u taskexp
This command will launch GUI terminal which shows all the packages included in core-minimal-image.