add more settings and documentation to local.conf.sample

BKrev: 40816d0br06SZQyBsd2UqnrOUo-N6g

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/conf/local.conf.sample b/conf/local.conf.sample
index 69f796ce30..59fe1a6650 100644
--- a/conf/local.conf.sample
+++ b/conf/local.conf.sample
@@ -1,11 +1,35 @@
-TARGET_ARCH = "arm"
+#
+# OpenEmbedded local configuration file (sample)
+#
+
+# Use this to specify where OE should place the downloaded sources into
 DL_DIR = "${HOME}/sources"
+
+# Use this to specify what .oe files to consider for builds
 OEFILES = "*/*.oe"
-# NOTE: only recent oemake's obey OEMASK directly
+
+# Note that only recent oemake's obey OEMASK directly, in earlier versions,
+# you had to filter by hand and populate OEFILES accordingly
+# Use the OEMASK below unless you want to build something else than the default glibc based setup
 OEMASK = "(uclibc|avr-libc|linux|grub|qte_|qte-for-qtopia|toolchain-external)"
 
-# Use this OEMASK if you want to use a prebuild toolchain. You will need to provide packages for toolchain
-# specific libraries yourself
-OEMASK = "-initial|/(binutils|uclibc|avr-libc|gcc|linux|grub|qte_|qte-for-qtopia)"
+# Uncomment this OEMASK, if you want to use a prebuild toolchain.
+# You will need to provide packages for toolchain specific libraries yourself
+#OEMASK = "-initial|/(binutils|uclibc|avr-libc|gcc|linux|grub|qte_|qte-for-qtopia)"
+
+# Uncomment this to specify where OE should create its temporary files.
+# Note that a fully build of everything in OE will take GigaBytes of hard disk space,
+# so make sure to free enough space. The default TMPDIR is <package directory>/tmp
+#TMPDIR = /usr/local/projects/oetmp
+
+# Uncomment this to specify a machine to build for. See <oe>/conf/*.conf for machines
+# currently known to OpenEmbedded.
+#MACHINE = "collie"
+
+# Use this to specify the target architecture. Note that this is only needed when building
+# for a machine not known to OpenEmbedded. Better use the MACHINE attribute (see above)
+TARGET_ARCH = "arm"
 
+# Uncomment this to build .tar packages during the build process.
+# Also supported is "package_ipk"
 #INHERIT = "package_tar"