bitbake and OE opperation

[Mark Gross <markgross@thegnar.org>]

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I'm trying to wrap my head around bit bake and the open embedded recipe
files design and structure.

Also, I'm a relative newbie WRT Python.

I'm trying to understand the way bit bake builds the dependency trees
and works at a low level.   Trying to reverse engineer it from the
python code is difficult.  Does anyone recommend any browser tools for
navigating a large python code base like bit bake?

I've read the documentation pages I could find but I haven't found any
"theory of operation" types of documents.  Are there any such things?

The questions I have are:
How does a simple command line "bitbake slogos-image" translate into
building all the components?  

How does bitbake push in the ./configure command line options?

Are there tools for doing analysis on the open embedded bb library?  

Thanks,

--mgross

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