From 45ace75bbf37b358a8c9ffc3398a93b374dc8c03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:18:42 -0700 Subject: ref-manual: Updated the PARALLEL_MAKE definition. Re-worded the first sentence. (From yocto-docs rev: 1b6798a8de3d73418b4377cf3b9654dfea4caed8) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'documentation') diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml index 6be2b7a097..5f82602f1d 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml @@ -3751,8 +3751,10 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3" PARALLEL_MAKE - Specifies extra options that are passed to the make command during the - compile tasks. + Extra options that are passed to the + make command during the + do_compile task in order to specify + parallel compilation. This variable is usually in the form -j 4, where the number represents the maximum number of parallel threads make can run. If you development host supports multiple cores a good rule of thumb is to set -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf