poky/bitbake/doc
Antonin Godard c0e2fa79c7 bitbake: bitbake-user-manual/ref-variables: extend PERSISTENT_DIR doc
Extend the current documentation of PERSISTENT_DIR:

- Mention that it also contains the hash equivalence database when
  BB_HASHSERVE = auto.
- Mention that it should not be shared between builds.

[YOCTO #15727]

(Bitbake rev: 682c2dccb67a57ecbf93aac8e9deea88bff10155)

Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Dubois-Briand <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-11-03 17:43:31 +00:00
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sphinx-static bitbake: docs: static: theme_overrides.css: fix responsive design on <640px screens 2020-10-06 13:52:25 +01:00
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conf.py bitbake: doc: add a new Library Functions document 2025-04-24 11:53:00 +01:00
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Makefile bitbake: doc: Makefile: turn warnings into errors by default 2021-07-26 22:34:13 +01:00
README Makefile: remove from top-level directory 2023-09-03 10:31:11 +01:00
releases.rst bitbake: doc: update releases.rst 2025-06-12 09:56:42 +01:00

Documentation
=============

This is the directory that contains the BitBake documentation. 

Manual Organization
===================

Folders exist for individual manuals as follows:

* bitbake-user-manual      --- The BitBake User Manual 

Each folder is self-contained regarding content and figures.

If you want to find HTML versions of the BitBake manuals on the web, 
go to https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Documentation.

Sphinx
======

The BitBake documentation was migrated from the original DocBook
format to Sphinx based documentation for the Yocto Project 3.2
release.

Additional information related to the Sphinx migration, and guidelines
for developers willing to contribute to the BitBake documentation can
be found in the Yocto Project Documentation README file:

https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/yocto-docs/tree/documentation/README

How to build the Yocto Project documentation
============================================

Sphinx is written in Python. While it might work with Python2, for
obvious reasons, we will only support building the BitBake
documentation with Python3.

Sphinx might be available in your Linux distro packages repositories,
however it is not recommend using distro packages, as they might be
old versions, especially if you are using an LTS version of your
distro. The recommended method to install Sphinx and all required
dependencies is to use the Python Package Index (pip).

To install all required packages run:

 $ pip3 install sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme pyyaml

To build the documentation locally, run:

 $ cd doc
 $ make html

The resulting HTML index page will be _build/html/index.html, and you
can browse your own copy of the locally generated documentation with
your browser.