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authorRichard Purdie <richard@openedhand.com>2008-09-11 23:02:51 +0000
committerRichard Purdie <richard@openedhand.com>2008-09-11 23:02:51 +0000
commitef1315e09f9b63d14ad46ab02780c76a9e306fc6 (patch)
treec7236d1855a7976dabe12a88c13a99e4882aa501
parent96a71ae11620b26c51eec434fe1ececb4687bbaf (diff)
downloadpoky-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
-rw-r--r--handbook/introduction.xml11
-rw-r--r--handbook/ref-variables.xml10
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/handbook/introduction.xml b/handbook/introduction.xml
index 291ed5d214..7de74673fb 100644
--- a/handbook/introduction.xml
+++ b/handbook/introduction.xml
@@ -196,9 +196,14 @@ $ runqemu qemuarm
196 196
197 <para> 197 <para>
198 To build for other machines see the <glossterm><link 198 To build for other machines see the <glossterm><link
199 linkend='var-MACHINE'>MACHINE</link></glossterm> variable in build/conf/local.conf 199 linkend='var-MACHINE'>MACHINE</link></glossterm> variable in build/conf/local.conf.
200 which also contains other configuration information. The images/kernels built 200 This file contains other useful configuration information and the default version
201 by Poky are placed in the <filename class="directory">tmp/deploy/images</filename> 201 has examples of common setup needs and is worth
202 reading. To take advantage of multiple processor cores to speed up builds for example, set the
203 <glossterm><link linkend='var-BB_NUMBER_THREADS'>BB_NUMBER_THREADS</link></glossterm>
204 and <glossterm><link linkend='var-PARALLEL_MAKE'>PARALLEL_MAKE</link></glossterm> variables.
205
206 The images/kernels built by Poky are placed in the <filename class="directory">tmp/deploy/images</filename>
202 directory. 207 directory.
203 </para> 208 </para>
204 209
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 @@
66 66
67 <glossentry id='var-BB_NUMBER_THREADS'><glossterm>BB_NUMBER_THREADS</glossterm> 67 <glossentry id='var-BB_NUMBER_THREADS'><glossterm>BB_NUMBER_THREADS</glossterm>
68 <glossdef> 68 <glossdef>
69 <para>Number of BitBake threads</para> 69 <para>The maximum number of tasks BitBake should run in parallel at any one time</para>
70 </glossdef> 70 </glossdef>
71 </glossentry> 71 </glossentry>
72 72
@@ -483,6 +483,14 @@
483 </glossdef> 483 </glossdef>
484 </glossentry> 484 </glossentry>
485 485
486 <glossentry id='var-PARALLEL_MAKE'><glossterm>PARALLEL_MAKE</glossterm>
487 <glossdef>
488 <para>Extra options that are passed to the make command during the
489 compile tasks. This is usually of the form '-j 4' where the number
490 represents the maximum number of parallel threads make can run.</para>
491 </glossdef>
492 </glossentry>
493
486 <glossentry id='var-PN'><glossterm>PN</glossterm> 494 <glossentry id='var-PN'><glossterm>PN</glossterm>
487 <glossdef> 495 <glossdef>
488 <para>Name of package. 496 <para>Name of package.