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@@ -5399,6 +5399,16 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
       :term:`Source Directory` for details on how this class
       applies these additional sed command arguments.
 
+   :term:`OECMAKE_GENERATOR`
+      A variable for the :ref:`ref-classes-cmake` class, allowing to choose
+      which back-end will be generated by CMake to build an application.
+
+      By default, this variable is set to ``Ninja``, which is faster than GNU
+      make, but if building is broken with Ninja, a recipe can use this
+      variable to use GNU make instead::
+
+         OECMAKE_GENERATOR = "Unix Makefiles"
+
    :term:`OE_IMPORTS`
       An internal variable used to tell the OpenEmbedded build system what
       Python modules to import for every Python function run by the system.