# this file holds documentation for known keys, possible values and their meaning # feel free to send updates and corrections to oe@handhelds.org # conf/bitbake.conf PREFERRED_VERSION[doc] = "Normally use it as PREFERRED_VERSION_package-name = \"\" to set the preferred \ version of more than one version for the package-name is available." BUILD_ARCH[doc] = "The name of the building architecture. For example i686" BUILD_OS[doc] = "The operating system (in lower case) of the building architecture. For example \ linux" BUILD_VENDOR[doc] = "FIXME" BUILD_SYS[doc] = "FIXME" BUILD_PREFIX[doc] = "FIXME" BUILD_CC_ARCH[doc] = "FIXME" HOST_ARCH[doc] = "The name of the target architecture. Normally same as the TARGET_ARCH (@see TARGET_ARCH)" HOST_OS[doc] = "The name of the target operating system. Normall same as the TARGET_OS \ (@see TARGET_OS)" HOST_VENDOR[doc] = "The name of the vendor. Normally same as the TARGET_VENDOR (@see TARGET_VENDOR)" HOST_SYS[doc] = "FIXME" HOST_PREFIX[doc] = "Normally same as the TARGET_PREFIX (@see TARGET_PREFIX)" HOST_CC_ARCH[doc] = "Normally same as the TARGET_CC_ARCH (@see TARGET_CC_ARCH)" TARGET_ARCH[doc] = "Build for which architecture. Examples are arm, i686, sh3, mips, powerpc" TARGET_OS[doc] = "Build for which Operating System. Currently possible values are \ linux and linux-ulibc" TARGET_VENDOR[doc] = "FIXME" TARGET_SYS[doc] = "The target system is composed out of TARGET_ARCH,TARGET_VENDOR and TARGET_OS" TARGET_PREFIX[doc] = "The prefix for the cross compile toolchain. For example arm-linux-" TARGET_CC_ARCH[doc] = "FIXME" TARGET_FPU[doc] = "Floating point option (mostly for FPU-less systems), can be 'soft' or empty" PACKAGE_ARCH[doc] = "The architecture needed for using a resulting package. If you have \ machine dependant configuration options in your bitbake file add a \ PACKAGE_ARCH = \"${MACHINE_ARCH}\" to the file" DATE[doc] = "The date the build was started Ymd" TIME[doc] = "The time the build was started HMS" DATETIME[doc] = "The date and time the build was started at" PN[doc] = "PN holds the name of the package (Package Name). It is gathered from the bitbake-file filename" PV[doc] = "PV holds the version of the package (Package Version). The default value is 1.0, it is \ retrieved from the bitbake-file filename." PR[doc] = "PR is the release of the package (Package Release). By default it is set to r0" PF[doc] = "FIXME" P[doc] = "FIXME" SECTION[doc] = "Section of the packages e.g. console/networking" PRIORITY[doc] = "FIXME" DESCRIPTION[doc] = "A small description of the package" LICENSE[doc] = "The license of the resulting package e.g. GPL" MAINTAINER[doc] = "Maintainer of the .bb and resulting package" HOMEPAGE[doc] = "Homepage of the package e.g. http://www.project.net" DEPENDS[doc] = "Build time dependencies, things needed to build the package" RDEPENDS[doc] = "FIXME" PROVIDES[doc] = "FIXME" PACKAGES[doc] = "FIXME" FILES[doc] = "FIXME" TMPDIR[doc] = "The temporary directory of openembedded holding work-, deploy, staging- and some more dirs" CACHE[doc] = "The directory holding the parsing cache." DL_DIR[doc] = "The directory where tarballs will be downloaded." CVSDIR[doc] = "The directory where cvs checkouts will be stored in." STAMP[doc] = "The directory that holds files to keep track of what was built" WORKDIR[doc] = "The directory where a concrete package will be unpacked and built" T[doc] = "Tempory directory within the WORKDIR"