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<title>Reference: Variables Glossary</title>

<para>
    This section lists common variables used in the Yocto Project and gives an overview
    of their function and contents.
</para>

<glossary id='ref-variables-glossary'>


    <para>
       <link linkend='var-AUTHOR'>A</link> 
       <link linkend='var-BB_NUMBER_THREADS'>B</link> 
       <link linkend='var-CFLAGS'>C</link> 
       <link linkend='var-D'>D</link> 
       <link linkend='var-ENABLE_BINARY_LOCALE_GENERATION'>E</link> 
       <link linkend='var-FILES'>F</link> 
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       <link linkend='var-HOMEPAGE'>H</link> 
       <link linkend='var-IMAGE_FEATURES'>I</link> 
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       <link linkend='var-KERNEL_IMAGETYPE'>K</link>
       <link linkend='var-LAYERDIR'>L</link> 
       <link linkend='var-MACHINE'>M</link> 
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       <link linkend='var-PACKAGE_ARCH'>P</link> 
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       <link linkend='var-RCONFLICTS'>R</link> 
       <link linkend='var-S'>S</link> 
       <link linkend='var-TARGET_ARCH'>T</link> 
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       <link linkend='var-WORKDIR'>W</link> 
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    </para>

    <glossdiv id='var-glossary-a'><title>A</title> 

         <glossentry id='var-AUTHOR'><glossterm>AUTHOR</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The email address used to contact the original author or authors in 
                    order to send patches, forward bugs, etc.</para>
            </glossdef>
         </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-AUTOREV'><glossterm>AUTOREV</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Specifies to use the current (newest) source revision.
                    This variable is with the <filename><link linkend='var-SRCREV'>SRCREV</link></filename>
                    variable.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

    </glossdiv> 

    <glossdiv id='var-glossary-b'><title>B</title>

        <glossentry id='var-BB_NUMBER_THREADS'><glossterm>BB_NUMBER_THREADS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The maximum number of tasks BitBake should run in parallel at any one time.
                    If your host development system supports mulitiple cores a good rule of thumb
                    is to set this variable to twice the number of cores.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-BBFILE_COLLECTIONS'><glossterm>BBFILE_COLLECTIONS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Identifies layer-specific <filename>.bbfiles</filename>, which contain recipes 
                    used by BitBake to build software.
                    The variable is appended with a layer name.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-BBFILE_PATTERN'><glossterm>BBFILE_PATTERN</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Variable that expands to match files from <filename>BBFILES</filename> in a particular layer.  
                    This variable is used in the <filename>conf/layer.conf</filename> file and must 
                    contain the name of the 
                    specific layer (e.g. <filename>BBFILE_PATTERN_emenlow</filename>).</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-BBFILE_PRIORITY'><glossterm>BBFILE_PRIORITY</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Assigns different priorities to recipe files in different layers.</para>
                <para>This variable is useful in situations where the same package appears in
                    more than one layer. 
                    Setting this variable allows you to prioritize a
                    layer against other layers that contain the same package - effectively
                    letting you control the precedence for the multiple layers. 
                    The precedence established through this variable stands regardless of a
                    layer's package version (<filename>PV</filename> variable). 
                    For example, a layer that has a package with a higher <filename>PV</filename> value but for 
                    which the <filename>BBFILE_PRIORITY</filename> is set to have a lower precedence still has a 
                    lower precedence.</para>
                <para>A larger value for the <filename>BBFILE_PRIORITY</filename> variable results in a higher
                    precedence. 
                    For example, the value 6 has a higher precedence than the value 5. 
                    By default, the <filename>BBFILE_PRIORITY</filename> variable is set to "5".</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-BBFILES'><glossterm>BBFILES</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>List of recipes used by BitBake to build software</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-BBPATH'><glossterm>BBPATH</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Used by BitBake to locate <filename>.bbclass</filename> and configuration files.  
                    This variable is analogous to the <filename>PATH</filename> variable.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-BBINCLUDELOGS'><glossterm>BBINCLUDELOGS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Variable that controls how BitBake displays logs on build failure.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-BBLAYERS'><glossterm>BBLAYERS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Lists the layers to enable during the Yocto Project build. 
                    This variable is defined in the <filename>bblayers.conf</filename> configuration 
                    file in the Yocto Project build directory. 
                    Here is an example:
                    <literallayout class='monospaced'>
     BBLAYERS = " \
       /home/scottrif/poky/meta \
       /home/scottrif/poky/meta-yocto \
       /home/scottrif/poky/meta-mykernel \
       "
                    </literallayout>
                    This example enables three layers, one of which is a custom, user-defined layer 
                    named <filename>meta-mykernel</filename>.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-BPN'><glossterm>BPN</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Bare name of package with any suffixes like -cross -native removed.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

    </glossdiv>

    <glossdiv id='var-glossary-c'><title>C</title>

        <glossentry id='var-CFLAGS'><glossterm>CFLAGS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    Flags passed to C compiler for the target system. 
                    This variable evaluates to the same as 
                    <filename><link linkend='var-TARGET_CFLAGS'>TARGET_CFLAGS</link></filename>.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-COMPATIBLE_MACHINE'><glossterm>COMPATIBLE_MACHINE</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>A regular expression which evaluates to match the machines the recipe 
                    works with. 
                    It stops recipes being run on machines for which they are not compatible. 
                    This is particularly useful with kernels. 
                    It also helps to increase parsing speed as further parsing of the recipe is skipped 
                    if it is found the current machine is not compatible.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-CONFIG_SITE'><glossterm>CONFIG_SITE</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    A list of files that contains <filename>autoconf</filename> test results relevant 
                    to the current build. 
                    This variable is used by the Autotools utilities when running 
                    <filename>configure</filename>.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

    </glossdiv>

    <glossdiv id='var-glossary-d'><title>D</title>

        <glossentry id='var-D'><glossterm>D</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The destination directory.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-DEBUG_BUILD'><glossterm>DEBUG_BUILD</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    Specifies to build packages with debugging information. 
                    This influences the value of the 
                    <filename><link linkend='var-SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION'>SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION</link></filename> 
                    variable.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-DEBUG_OPTIMIZATION'><glossterm>DEBUG_OPTIMIZATION</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    The options to pass in 
                    <filename><link linkend='var-TARGET_CFLAGS'>TARGET_CFLAGS</link></filename>
                    and <filename><link linkend='var-CFLAGS'>CFLAGS</link></filename> when compiling 
                    a system for debugging.
                    This variable defaults to "-O -fno-omit-frame-pointer -g".
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-DEFAULT_PREFERENCE'><glossterm>DEFAULT_PREFERENCE</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Specifies the priority of recipes.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-DEPENDS'><glossterm>DEPENDS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    A list of build-time dependencies for a given recipe. 
                    The variable indicates recipes that must have been staged before a 
                    particular recipe can configure.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-DESCRIPTION'><glossterm>DESCRIPTION</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The package description used by package managers.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-DESTDIR'><glossterm>DESTDIR</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>the destination directory.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-DISTRO'><glossterm>DISTRO</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The short name of the distribution.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS'><glossterm>DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The list of packages required by the distribution.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-DISTRO_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS'><glossterm>DISTRO_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The list of packages which extend usability of the image. 
                    Those packages will automatically be installed but can be removed by user.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-DISTRO_FEATURES'><glossterm>DISTRO_FEATURES</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The features of the distribution.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-DISTRO_NAME'><glossterm>DISTRO_NAME</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The long name of the distribution.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS'><glossterm>DISTRO_PN_ALIAS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Alias names used for the recipe in various Linux distributions.</para>
                <para>See <link linkend='usingpoky-configuring-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS'>
                    Handling a Package Name Alias</link> section for more information.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-DISTRO_VERSION'><glossterm>DISTRO_VERSION</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>the version of the distribution.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-DL_DIR'><glossterm>DL_DIR</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The directory where all fetched sources will be stored.</para>
            </glossdef>

        </glossentry>
    </glossdiv>

    <glossdiv id='var-glossary-e'><title>E</title>

        <glossentry id='var-ENABLE_BINARY_LOCALE_GENERATION'><glossterm>ENABLE_BINARY_LOCALE_GENERATION</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Variable that controls which locales for <filename>glibc</filename> are
                    to be generated during the build (useful if the target device has 64Mbytes
                    of RAM or less).</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES'><glossterm>EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Allows extra packages to be added to the generated images.
                    You set this variable in the <filename>local.conf</filename>
                    configuration file.
                    Note that some image features are also added using the 
                    <filename><link linkend='var-IMAGE_FEATURES'>IMAGE_FEATURES</link></filename>
                    variable generally configured in image recipes.
                    You can use this variable to add more features in addition to those.
                    Here are some examples of features you can add:</para>
                    <literallayout class='monospaced'>
     "dbg-pkgs" - Adds -dbg packages for all installed packages
                  including symbol information for debugging and 
                  profiling.

     "dev-pkgs" - Adds -dev packages for all installed packages.  
                  This is useful if you want to develop against 
                  the libraries in the image.

     "tools-sdk" - Adds development tools such as gcc, make, 
                   pkgconfig and so forth.

     "tools-debug" - Adds debugging tools such as gdb and 
                     strace.

     "tools-profile" - Adds profiling tools such as oprofile, 
                       exmap, lttng and valgrind (x86 only).

     "tools-testapps" - Adds useful testing tools such as 
                        ts_print, aplay, arecord and so 
                        forth.

     "debug-tweaks" - Makes an image suitable for development.  
                      For example, ssh root access has a blank 
                      password.  There are other application 
                      targets too, see 
                      meta/classes/poky-image.bbclass
                      and meta/packages/tasks/task-poky.bb 
                      for more details.
                    </literallayout> 
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-EXTRA_OECMAKE'><glossterm>EXTRA_OECMAKE</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Additional <filename>cmake</filename> options.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-EXTRA_OECONF'><glossterm>EXTRA_OECONF</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Additional <filename>configure</filename> script options.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-EXTRA_OEMAKE'><glossterm>EXTRA_OEMAKE</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Additional GNU <filename>make</filename> options.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

    </glossdiv>

    <glossdiv id='var-glossary-f'><title>F</title>

        <glossentry id='var-FILES'><glossterm>FILES</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The list of directories or files that are placed in packages.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-FULL_OPTIMIZATION'><glossterm>FULL_OPTIMIZATION</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    The options to pass in 
                    <filename><link linkend='var-TARGET_CFLAGS'>TARGET_CFLAGS</link></filename>
                    and <filename><link linkend='var-CFLAGS'>CFLAGS</link></filename>
                    when compiling an optimised system.
                    This variable defaults to 
                    "-fexpensive-optimizations -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -O2".
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

    </glossdiv>

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    <glossdiv id='var-glossary-h'><title>H</title>

        <glossentry id='var-HOMEPAGE'><glossterm>HOMEPAGE</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Website where more info about package can be found</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

    </glossdiv>

    <glossdiv id='var-glossary-i'><title>I</title>

        <glossentry id='var-IMAGE_FEATURES'><glossterm>IMAGE_FEATURES</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The list of features present in images.
                Typically, you configure this variable in image recipes.
                Note that you can add extra features to the image by using the
                <filename><link linkend='var-EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES'>EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES</link></filename> variable.
                See the <link linkend="ref-features-image">Reference: Images</link> section for the 
                list of features present in images built by the Yocto Project.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-IMAGE_FSTYPES'><glossterm>IMAGE_FSTYPES</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Formats of root filesystem images that you want to have created.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-IMAGE_INSTALL'><glossterm>IMAGE_INSTALL</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The list of packages used to build images.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-INC_PR'><glossterm>INC_PR</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Defines the Package revision.  
                    You manually combine values for <filename>INC_PR</filename> into the 
                    <filename>PR</filename> field of the parent recipe.
                    When you change this variable, you change the <filename>PR</filename>
                    value for every person that includes the file.</para>
                <para>
                    The following example shows how to use the <filename>INC_PR</filename> variable
                    given a common <filename>.inc</filename> file that defines the variable.
                    Once defined, you can use the variable to set the <filename>PR</filename> value:
                </para>
                <literallayout class='monospaced'>
 recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-util_1.1.1.bb:PR - "$(INC_PR).1"
 recipes-graphics/xorg-font/xorg-font-common.inc:INC_PR - "r1"
 recipes-graphics/xorg-font/encondings_1.0.3.bb:PR - "$(INC_PR).1"
 recipes-graphics/xorg-font/fiont-alias_1.0.2.bb:PR - "$(INC_PR).0"
                </literallayout>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-INHIBIT_PACKAGE_STRIP'><glossterm>INHIBIT_PACKAGE_STRIP</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    Causes the build to not strip binaries in resulting packages.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>


        <glossentry id='var-INHERIT'><glossterm>INHERIT</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    Causes the named class to be inherited at 
                    this point during parsing. 
                    The variable is only valid in configuration files.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>


        <glossentry id='var-INITSCRIPT_PACKAGES'><glossterm>INITSCRIPT_PACKAGES</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    A list of the packages that contain initscripts. 
                    If multiple packages are specified, you need to append the package name 
                    to the other <filename>INITSCRIPT_*</filename> as an override.</para>
                 <para>
                    This variable is used in recipes when using <filename>update-rc.d.bbclass</filename>.
                    The variable is optional and defaults to the <filename>PN</filename> variable.
                </para>
           </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-INITSCRIPT_NAME'><glossterm>INITSCRIPT_NAME</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    The filename of the initscript (as installed to <filename>${etcdir}/init.d)</filename>.
                </para>
                <para>
                    This variable is used in recipes when using <filename>update-rc.d.bbclass</filename>.
                    The variable is Mandatory.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-INITSCRIPT_PARAMS'><glossterm>INITSCRIPT_PARAMS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    Specifies the options to pass to <filename>update-rc.d</filename>.
                    An example is <filename>start 99 5 2 . stop 20 0 1 6 .</filename>, which gives the script a 
                    runlevel of 99, starts the script in initlevels 2 and 5, and 
                    stops the script in levels 0, 1 and 6. 
                </para>
                <para>
                    The variable is mandatory and is used in recipes when using 
                    <filename>update-rc.d.bbclass</filename>.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>


    </glossdiv>

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   <glossdiv id='var-glossary-k'><title>K</title>

        <glossentry id='var-KERNEL_IMAGETYPE'><glossterm>KERNEL_IMAGETYPE</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The type of kernel to build for a device, usually set by the 
                    machine configuration files and defaults to "zImage". 
                    This variable is used 
                    when building the kernel and is passed to <filename>make</filename> as the target to 
                    build.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

   </glossdiv>

    <glossdiv id='var-glossary-l'><title>L</title>

        <glossentry id='var-LAYERDIR'><glossterm>LAYERDIR</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>When used inside the <filename>layer.conf</filename> configuration 
                    file, this variable provides the path of the current layer. 
                    This variable requires immediate expansion
                    (see the BitBake manual) as lazy expansion can result in
                    the expansion happening in the wrong directory and therefore
                    giving the wrong value.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-LICENSE'><glossterm>LICENSE</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The list of package source licenses.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM'><glossterm>LIC_FILES_CHKSUM</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Checksums of the license text in the recipe source code.</para>
                <para>This variable tracks changes in license text of the source
                    code files. 
                    If the license text is changed, it will trigger the build
                    failure, which gives the developer an opportunity to review any 
                    license change</para>
                <para> 
                    Currently, this variable is optional.
                    The plan is to make it a required variable in the future.</para>
                <para>For more information, see the
                    <link linkend='usingpoky-configuring-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM'>
                    Track License Change</link> section</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

    </glossdiv>

    <glossdiv id='var-glossary-m'><title>M</title>

         <glossentry id='var-MACHINE'><glossterm>MACHINE</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Specifies the target device.</para>
            </glossdef>
         </glossentry>

         <glossentry id='var-MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_RDEPENDS'><glossterm>MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_RDEPENDS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Specifies the list of packages required to boot the device.</para>
            </glossdef>
         </glossentry>

         <glossentry id='var-MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_RRECOMMENDS'><glossterm>MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_RRECOMMENDS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Specifies the list of packages required to boot the device (usually
                    additional kernel modules).</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

         <glossentry id='var-MACHINE_EXTRA_RDEPENDS'><glossterm>MACHINE_EXTRA_RDEPENDS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Specifies the list of packages required to use the devices</para>
            </glossdef>
         </glossentry>

         <glossentry id='var-MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS'><glossterm>MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Specifies the list of packages useful to use the device (e.g.
                    additional kernel modules)</para>
            </glossdef>
         </glossentry>

         <glossentry id='var-MACHINE_FEATURES'><glossterm>MACHINE_FEATURES</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Specifies the list of device features.
                    See the <link linkend='ref-features-machine'>Machine</link> section for 
                    more information.</para>
            </glossdef>
         </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-MAINTAINER'><glossterm>MAINTAINER</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The email address of the distribution maintainer.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>
    </glossdiv>

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    <glossdiv id='var-glossary-p'><title>P</title>

        <glossentry id='var-PACKAGE_ARCH'><glossterm>PACKAGE_ARCH</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The architecture of the resulting package.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-PACKAGE_CLASSES'><glossterm>PACKAGE_CLASSES</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Specifies the list of resulting package formats.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION'><glossterm>PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The long form description of the binary package for packaging systems such as 
                    <filename>ipkg</filename>, <filename>rpm</filename> or <filename>debian</filename>.
                    By default, this variable inherits <filename>DESCRIPTION</filename>.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS'><glossterm>PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Specifies the list of architectures compatible with the device CPU.
                    This variable is useful when you build for several different devices that use
                    miscellaneous processors such as XScale and ARM926-EJS).</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-PACKAGE_SUMMARY'><glossterm>PACKAGE_SUMMARY</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The short (72 character limit suggested) summary of the binary
                package for packaging systems such as <filename>ipkg</filename>, 
                <filename>rpm</filename> or <filename>debian</filename>.
                By default, this variable inherits <filename>DESCRIPTION</filename>.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>


        <glossentry id='var-PACKAGES'><glossterm>PACKAGES</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The list of packages to be created from the recipe.
                    The default value is "${PN}-dbg ${PN} ${PN}-doc ${PN}-dev".</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-PARALLEL_MAKE'><glossterm>PARALLEL_MAKE</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Specifies extra options that are passed to the <filename>make</filename> command during the 
                    compile tasks. 
                    This variable is usually in the form <filename>-j 4</filename>, 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 
                    this variable to one and a half times the number of cores on the host.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-PN'><glossterm>PN</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The name of the package.
                    </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-PR'><glossterm>PR</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The revision of the package. 
                    The default value for this variable is "r0".
                    </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-PV'><glossterm>PV</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The version of the package.
                    The version is normally extracted from the recipe name.
                    For example, if the recipe is named 
                    <filename>expat_2.0.1.bb</filename>, then <filename>PV</filename>
                    will be <filename>2.0.1</filename>. 
                    <filename>PV</filename> is generally not overridden within 
                    a recipe unless it is building an unstable version from a source code repository 
                    (e.g. Git or Subversion).
                 </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-PE'><glossterm>PE</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    the epoch of the package. 
                    The default value is "0". 
                    The field is used to make upgrades possible when the versioning scheme changes in 
                    some backwards incompatible way.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-PREFERRED_PROVIDER'><glossterm>PREFERRED_PROVIDER</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>If multiple recipes provide an item, this variable
                    determines which recipe should be given preference. 
                    The variable should be set to the <filename>$PN</filename> of the recipe 
                    to which you want to give precedence.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-PREFERRED_VERSION'><glossterm>PREFERRED_VERSION</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    If there are multiple versions of recipes available, this
                    variable determines which recipe should be given preference.
                    The variable should be set to the <filename>$PV</filename> of the recipe 
                    to whichy you want to give precedence.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-POKY_EXTRA_INSTALL'><glossterm>POKY_EXTRA_INSTALL</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Specifies the list of packages to be added to the image. 
                    This variable should only be set in the <filename>local.conf</filename>
                    configuration file found in the Yocto Project's build directory.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-POKYLIBC'><glossterm>POKYLIBC</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The <filename>libc</filename> implementation selector. 
                    You can select <filename>glibc</filename>, <filename>eglibc</filename>, 
                    or <filename>uclibc</filename>.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-POKYMODE'><glossterm>POKYMODE</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The toolchain selector. 
                    This variable has been replaced by <filename>TCMODE</filename>.
                    The <filename>POKYMODE</filename> would select the external toolchain
                    built from the Yocto Project or a few supported combinations of
                    upstream GCC or CodeSourcery Labs toolchain.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

    </glossdiv>

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        <glossentry id='var-RCONFLICTS'><glossterm>RCONFLICTS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The list of packages that conflict with this package.
                    Note that the package will not be installed if the conflicting packages are not
                    first removed.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-RDEPENDS'><glossterm>RDEPENDS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    A list of run-time dependencies for a package. 
                    These packages need to be installed alongside the package to which
                    they apply. 
                    This enables the package to run correctly. 
                    For example, consider a Perl script, which depends on the Perl package. 
                    Since this variable applies to 
                    output packages, there would usually be an override attached 
                    to this variable such as <filename>RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev</filename>. 
                    Names in this field must appear as they appear in the
                    <filename><link linkend='var-PACKAGES'>PACKAGES</link></filename> namespace before any 
                    renaming of the output package by classes like <filename>debian.bbclass</filename>.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-ROOT_FLASH_SIZE'><glossterm>ROOT_FLASH_SIZE</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The size of root filesystem as measured in megabytes.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-RRECOMMENDS'><glossterm>RRECOMMENDS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The list of packages that extend usability of the package. 
                    The packages are automatically installed but can be removed by user.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-RREPLACES'><glossterm>RREPLACES</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The list of packages that are replaced with this package.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

    </glossdiv>

    <glossdiv id='var-glossary-s'><title>S</title>

        <glossentry id='var-S'><glossterm>S</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    The path to unpacked sources.
                    By default, this path is 
                    "${<link linkend='var-WORKDIR'>WORKDIR</link>}/${<link linkend='var-PN'>PN</link>}-${<link linkend='var-PV'>PV</link>}".
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-SECTION'><glossterm>SECTION</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The section where package should be put.
                    Package managers use this variable.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION'><glossterm>SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    The variable takes the value of 
                    <filename><link linkend='var-FULL_OPTIMIZATION'>FULL_OPTIMIZATION</link></filename>
                    unless <filename><link linkend='var-DEBUG_BUILD'>DEBUG_BUILD</link></filename> = "1".
                    In this case the value of 
                    <filename><link linkend='var-DEBUG_OPTIMIZATION'>DEBUG_OPTIMIZATION</link></filename> is used.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>


        <glossentry id='var-SERIAL_CONSOLE'><glossterm>SERIAL_CONSOLE</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The speed and device for the serial port used to attach the serial console. 
                    This variable is given to the kernel as the "console"
                    parameter and after booting occurs <filename>getty</filename> is started on that port
                    so remote login is possible.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-SSTATE_DIR'><glossterm>SSTATE_DIR</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The directory for the shared state.</para>
            </glossdef>

        </glossentry>
        <glossentry id='var-SHELLCMDS'><glossterm>SHELLCMDS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    A list of commands to run within the shell. 
                    The list is used by <filename><link linkend='var-TERMCMDRUN'>TERMCMDRUN</link></filename>.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-SITEINFO_ENDIANESS'><glossterm>SITEINFO_ENDIANESS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    Specifies the endian byte order of the target system. 
                    The variable is either "le" for little-endian or "be" for big-endian.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-SITEINFO_BITS'><glossterm>SITEINFO_BITS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    Specifies the number of bits for the target system CPU.
                    The variable is either "32" or "64".
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-SRC_URI'><glossterm>SRC_URI</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The list of source files - local or remote.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-SRC_URI_OVERRIDES_PACKAGE_ARCH'><glossterm>SRC_URI_OVERRIDES_PACKAGE_ARCH</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    By default, the Yocto Project automatically detects whether 
                    <filename><link linkend='var-SRC_URI'>SRC_URI</link></filename>  
                    contains files that are machine-specific.
                    If so, the Yocto Project automatically changes 
                    <filename><link linkend='var-PACKAGE_ARCH'>PACKAGE_ARCH</link></filename>. 
                    Setting this variable to "0" disables this behaviour.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-SRCDATE'><glossterm>SRCDATE</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    The date of the source code used to build the package.
                    This variable applies only if the source was fetched from a Source Code Manager (SCM).
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-SRCREV'><glossterm>SRCREV</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    The revision of the source code used to build the package.
                    This variable applies to Subversion, GitT, or Bazaar only.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-STAGING_KERNEL_DIR'><glossterm>STAGING_KERNEL_DIR</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    The directory with kernel headers that are required to build out-of-tree
                    modules.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-STAMPS'><glossterm>STAMPS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    The directory (usually <filename>TMPDIR/stamps</filename>) with timestamps of
                    executed tasks.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-SUMMARY'><glossterm>SUMMARY</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The short (72 characters or less) summary of the binary package for packaging 
                    systems such as <filename>ipkg</filename>, <filename>rpm</filename> or 
                    <filename>debian</filename>.
                    By default, this variable inherits <filename>DESCRIPTION</filename>.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

    </glossdiv>

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        <glossentry id='var-TARGET_ARCH'><glossterm>TARGET_ARCH</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The architecture of the device being built. 
                While a number of values are possible, the Yocto Project primarily supports
                <filename>arm</filename> and <filename>i586</filename>.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-TARGET_CFLAGS'><glossterm>TARGET_CFLAGS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    Flags passed to the C compiler for the target system. 
                    This variable evaluates to the same as 
                    <filename><link linkend='var-CFLAGS'>CFLAGS</link></filename>.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>


        <glossentry id='var-TARGET_FPU'><glossterm>TARGET_FPU</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Specifies the method for handling FPU code. 
                    For FPU-less targets, which include most ARM CPUs, the variable must be
                    set to "soft".
                    If not, the kernel emulation gets used, which results in a performance penalty.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-TARGET_OS'><glossterm>TARGET_OS</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>Specifies the target's operating system. 
                    The variable can be set to "linux" for <filename>glibc</filename>-based systems and
                    "linux-uclibc" for <filename>uClibc</filename>. 
                    For ARM/EABI targets, there are also "linux-gnueabi" and
                    "linux-uclibc-gnueabi" values possible.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-TCMODE'><glossterm>TCMODE</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The toolchain selector. 
                    This variable replaces <filename>POKYMODE</filename>.
                    The variable determines which of the files in 
                    <filename>meta/conf/distro/include/tcmode-*</filename> is used. 
                    By default, <filename>TCMODE</filename> is set to "default", which 
                    chooses <filename>tcmode-default.inc</filename>.</para>
                <para>The variable is similar to <filename>TCLIBC</filename>, which controls the 
                    <filename>libc</filename> used: <filename>eglibc</filename> or <filename>uclibc</filename>.
                    </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry> 

        <glossentry id='var-TERMCMD'><glossterm>TERMCMD</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    This command is used by BitBake to launch a terminal window with a 
                    shell. 
                    The shell is unspecified so the user's default shell is used. 
                    By default, the variable is set to "gnome-terminal" but it can 
                    be any X11 terminal application or terminal multiplexers-like screen.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry id='var-TERMCMDRUN'><glossterm>TERMCMDRUN</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>
                    This variable is similar to 
                    <filename><link linkend='var-TERMCMD'>TERMCMD</link></filename>.
                    However, instead of running the user's shell, the command specified by 
                    the <filename><link linkend='var-SHELLCMDS'>SHELLCMDS</link></filename> 
                    variable is run.
                </para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

    </glossdiv>

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        <glossentry id='var-WORKDIR'><glossterm>WORKDIR</glossterm>
            <glossdef>
                <para>The path to directory in <filename>tmp/work/</filename> where 
                    the package is built.</para>
            </glossdef>
        </glossentry>

    </glossdiv>

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