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+# this file holds documentation for known keys, possible values and their meaning
+# feel free to send updates and corrections to oe@handhelds.org
+
+# conf/bitbake.conf
+PREFERRED_VERSION[doc] = "Normally use it as PREFERRED_VERSION_package-name = \"\" to set the preferred \
+version of more than one version for the package-name is available."
+
+BUILD_ARCH[doc] = "The name of the building architecture. For example i686"
+BUILD_OS[doc] = "The operating system (in lower case) of the building architecture. For example \
+linux"
+BUILD_VENDOR[doc] = "FIXME"
+BUILD_SYS[doc] = "FIXME"
+BUILD_PREFIX[doc] = "FIXME"
+BUILD_CC_ARCH[doc] = "FIXME"
+
+HOST_ARCH[doc] = "The name of the target architecture. Normally same as the TARGET_ARCH (@see TARGET_ARCH)"
+HOST_OS[doc] = "The name of the target operating system. Normall same as the TARGET_OS \
+(@see TARGET_OS)"
+HOST_VENDOR[doc] = "The name of the vendor. Normally same as the TARGET_VENDOR (@see TARGET_VENDOR)"
+HOST_SYS[doc] = "FIXME"
+HOST_PREFIX[doc] = "Normally same as the TARGET_PREFIX (@see TARGET_PREFIX)"
+HOST_CC_ARCH[doc] = "Normally same as the TARGET_CC_ARCH (@see TARGET_CC_ARCH)"
+
+TARGET_ARCH[doc] = "Build for which architecture. Examples are arm, i686, sh3, mips, powerpc"
+TARGET_OS[doc]   = "Build for which Operating System. Currently possible values are \
+linux and linux-ulibc"
+TARGET_VENDOR[doc] = "FIXME"
+TARGET_SYS[doc] = "The target system is composed out of TARGET_ARCH,TARGET_VENDOR and TARGET_OS"
+TARGET_PREFIX[doc] = "The prefix for the cross compile toolchain. For example arm-linux-"
+TARGET_CC_ARCH[doc] = "FIXME"
+TARGET_FPU[doc] = "Floating point option (mostly for FPU-less systems), can be 'soft' or empty" 
+
+PACKAGE_ARCH[doc] = "The architecture needed for using a resulting package. If you have \
+machine dependant configuration options in your bitbake file add a \
+PACKAGE_ARCH  = \"${MACHINE_ARCH}\" to the file"
+
+
+DATE[doc] = "The date the build was started Ymd"
+TIME[doc] = "The time the build was started HMS"
+DATETIME[doc] = "The date and time the build was started at"
+
+PN[doc] = "PN holds the name of the package (Package Name). It is gathered from the bitbake-file filename"
+PV[doc] = "PV holds the version of the package (Package Version). The default value is 1.0, it is \
+retrieved from the bitbake-file filename."
+PR[doc] = "PR is the release of the package (Package Release). By default it is set to r0"
+PF[doc] = "FIXME"
+P[doc]  = "FIXME"
+
+
+SECTION[doc]  = "Section of the packages e.g. console/networking"
+PRIORITY[doc] = "FIXME"
+DESCRIPTION[doc] = "A small description of the package"
+LICENSE[doc] = "The license of the resulting package e.g. GPL"
+MAINTAINER[doc] = "Maintainer of the .bb and resulting package"
+HOMEPAGE[doc] = "Homepage of the package e.g. http://www.project.net"
+
+
+DEPENDS[doc]  = "Build time dependencies, things needed to build the package"
+RDEPENDS[doc] = "FIXME"
+PROVIDES[doc] = "FIXME"
+
+
+PACKAGES[doc] = "FIXME"
+FILES[doc]    = "FIXME"
+
+
+
+TMPDIR[doc] = "The temporary directory of openembedded holding work-, deploy, staging- and some more dirs"
+CACHE[doc]  = "The directory holding the parsing cache."
+DL_DIR[doc] = "The directory where tarballs will be downloaded."
+CVSDIR[doc] = "The directory where cvs checkouts will be stored in."
+
+STAMP[doc]   = "The directory that holds files to keep track of what was built"
+WORKDIR[doc] = "The directory where a concrete package will be unpacked and built"
+T[doc]       = "Tempory directory within the WORKDIR"