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977 </glossdef> 977 </glossdef>
978 </glossentry> 978 </glossentry>
979 979
980 <glossentry id='var-BB_SERVER_TIMEOUT'><glossterm>BB_SERVER_TIMEOUT</glossterm>
981 <info>
982 BB_SERVER_TIMEOUT [doc] = "Specifies the time (in seconds) after which to unload the BitBake server due to inactivity."
983 </info>
984 <glossdef>
985 <para role="glossdeffirst">
986<!-- <para role="glossdeffirst"><imagedata fileref="figures/define-generic.png" /> -->
987 Specifies the time (in seconds) after which to unload the
988 BitBake server due to inactivity.
989 Set <filename>BB_SERVER_TIMEOUT</filename> to determine how
990 long the BitBake server stays resident between invocations.
991 </para>
992
993 <para>
994 For example, the following statement in your
995 <filename>local.conf</filename> file instructs the server
996 to be unloaded after 20 seconds of inactivity:
997 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
998 BB_SERVER_TIMEOUT = "20"
999 </literallayout>
1000 If you want the server to never be unloaded, set
1001 <filename>BB_SERVER_TIMEOUT</filename> to "-1".
1002 </para>
1003 </glossdef>
1004 </glossentry>
1005
980 <glossentry id='var-BBCLASSEXTEND'><glossterm>BBCLASSEXTEND</glossterm> 1006 <glossentry id='var-BBCLASSEXTEND'><glossterm>BBCLASSEXTEND</glossterm>
981 <info> 1007 <info>
982 BBCLASSEXTEND[doc] = "Allows you to extend a recipe so that it builds variants of the software. Common variants for recipes are 'native', 'cross', 'nativesdk' and multilibs." 1008 BBCLASSEXTEND[doc] = "Allows you to extend a recipe so that it builds variants of the software. Common variants for recipes are 'native', 'cross', 'nativesdk' and multilibs."