[dgfitz]

This toolchain is about half my dayjob.

Bitbake is a meta-compiler, and the tool suite is very powerful. Just realize to this means you need to be an expert error-message debugger, and able to jump into (usually c/c++) code to address issues and flow patches upstream.

It really is gratifying when you finally kick out a working image.

[msarnoff]

Yocto error messages are absurdly awful. Hope you like fishing out the one gcc error out of 10,000 lines of garbage output.

There's nothing as disappointing as starting a build, going out for a couple hours, and coming back to a terminal full of red.

But when it works, it works.