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| author |   Richard Purdie <richard@openedhand.com> | 2008-09-11 23:02:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard@openedhand.com> | 2008-09-11 23:02:51 +0000 |
| commit | ef1315e09f9b63d14ad46ab02780c76a9e306fc6 (patch) | |
| tree | c7236d1855a7976dabe12a88c13a99e4882aa501 /handbook/ref-variables.xml | |
| parent | 96a71ae11620b26c51eec434fe1ececb4687bbaf (diff) | |
| download | openembedded-core-ef1315e09f9b63d14ad46ab02780c76a9e306fc6.tar.gz | |
handbook/quickstart: Improve documentation on the options available in local.conf
git-svn-id: https://svn.o-hand.com/repos/poky/trunk@5190 311d38ba-8fff-0310-9ca6-ca027cbcb966
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/handbook/ref-variables.xml b/handbook/ref-variables.xml index a3590e1072..4beb0cf35f 100644 --- a/handbook/ref-variables.xml +++ b/handbook/ref-variables.xml @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ <glossentry id='var-BB_NUMBER_THREADS'><glossterm>BB_NUMBER_THREADS</glossterm> <glossdef> - <para>Number of BitBake threads</para> + <para>The maximum number of tasks BitBake should run in parallel at any one time</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> @@ -483,6 +483,14 @@ </glossdef> </glossentry> + <glossentry id='var-PARALLEL_MAKE'><glossterm>PARALLEL_MAKE</glossterm> + <glossdef> + <para>Extra options that are passed to the make command during the + compile tasks. This is usually of the form '-j 4' where the number + represents the maximum number of parallel threads make can run.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id='var-PN'><glossterm>PN</glossterm> <glossdef> <para>Name of package. |