The base
class is special in that every
.bb
file implicitly inherits the class.
This class contains definitions for standard basic
tasks such as fetching, unpacking, configuring (empty by default),
compiling (runs any Makefile
present), installing
(empty by default) and packaging (empty by default).
These classes are often overridden or extended by other classes
such as the
autotools
class or the
package
class.
The class also contains some commonly used functions such as
oe_runmake
, which runs
make
with the arguments specified in
EXTRA_OEMAKE
variable as well as the arguments passed directly to
oe_runmake
.