From ef1315e09f9b63d14ad46ab02780c76a9e306fc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Purdie <richard@openedhand.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:02:51 +0000
Subject: 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
---
 handbook/ref-variables.xml | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'handbook/ref-variables.xml')

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.
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