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-### Shell environment set up for builds. ###
-
-You can now run 'bitbake <target>'
-
-Common targets are:
-    core-image-minimal
-    core-image-full-cmdline
-    core-image-sato
-    core-image-weston
-    meta-toolchain
-    meta-ide-support
-
-You can also run generated qemu images with a command like 'runqemu qemux86-64'.
-
-Other commonly useful commands are:
- - 'devtool' and 'recipetool' handle common recipe tasks
- - 'bitbake-layers' handles common layer tasks
- - 'oe-pkgdata-util' handles common target package tasks