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diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution.xml b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution.xml index 571424b99..17a74591a 100644 --- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution.xml +++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution.xml @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ The execution process is launched using the following command form: <literallayout class='monospaced'> - $ bitbake <target> + $ bitbake <replaceable>target</replaceable> </literallayout> For information on the BitBake command and its options, see @@ -37,14 +37,16 @@ </para> <para> - A common way to determine this value for your build host is to run: + A common method to determine this value for your build host is to run + the following: <literallayout class='monospaced'> $ grep processor /proc/cpuinfo </literallayout> - and count the number of processors displayed. Note that the number of - processors will take into account hyper-threading, so that a quad-core - build host with hyper-threading will most likely show eight processors, - which is the value you would then assign to that variable. + This command returns the number of processors, which takes into + account hyper-threading. + Thus, a quad-core build host with hyper-threading most likely + shows eight processors, which is the value you would then assign to + <filename>BB_NUMBER_THREADS</filename>. </para> <para> @@ -782,13 +784,13 @@ make some dependency and hash information available to the build. This information includes: <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para><filename>BB_BASEHASH_task-<taskname></filename>: + <listitem><para><filename>BB_BASEHASH_task-</filename><replaceable>taskname</replaceable>: The base hashes for each task in the recipe. </para></listitem> - <listitem><para><filename>BB_BASEHASH_<filename:taskname></filename>: + <listitem><para><filename>BB_BASEHASH_</filename><replaceable>filename</replaceable><filename>:</filename><replaceable>taskname</replaceable>: The base hashes for each dependent task. </para></listitem> - <listitem><para><filename>BBHASHDEPS_<filename:taskname></filename>: + <listitem><para><filename>BBHASHDEPS_</filename><replaceable>filename</replaceable><filename>:</filename><replaceable>taskname</replaceable>: The task dependencies for each task. </para></listitem> <listitem><para><filename>BB_TASKHASH</filename>: |