diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-structure.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-structure.xml index 97ecf2a70f..d58ebc0b71 100644 --- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-structure.xml +++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-structure.xml @@ -30,17 +30,22 @@ The copy usually matches the current stable BitBake release from the BitBake project. BitBake, a metadata interpreter, reads the Yocto Project metadata and runs the tasks defined by that data. - Failures are usually from the metadata and not - from BitBake itself. + Failures are usually from the metadata and not from BitBake itself. Consequently, most users do not need to worry about BitBake. - The bitbake/bin/ directory is placed - into the shell's PATH environment variable by the - oe-init-build-env script. + + + + When you run the bitbake command, the wrapper script in + scripts/ is executed to run the main BitBake executable, + which resides in the bitbake/bin/ directory. + Sourcing the oe-init-build-env + script places the BitBake wrapper into the shell's PATH environment + variable. For more information on BitBake, see the BitBake on-line manual at - . + .