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authorRichard Purdie <richard@openedhand.com>2006-07-21 10:10:31 +0000
committerRichard Purdie <richard@openedhand.com>2006-07-21 10:10:31 +0000
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+# this file holds documentation for known keys, possible values and
+# their meaning. Please update, correct and extend this documentation.
+# Mail your changes 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. E.g. i686."
+BUILD_OS[doc] = "The operating system (in lower case) of the building architecture. E.g \
+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 @group base"
+HOST_OS[doc] = "The name of the target operating system. Normally the same as the TARGET_OS. \
+@see TARGET_OS @group base"
+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 @group base"
+HOST_CC_ARCH[doc] = "Normally same as the TARGET_CC_ARCH. @see TARGET_CC_ARCH @group base"
+HOST_NONSYSV[doc] = 'This flag can be set to "1" if the host system is not SysV compatible. E.g.\
+fakeroot-native will be build with tcp as IPC implementation.'
+
+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-uclibc. When using linux-uclibc you might want to set USE_NLS_gcc-cross to "no".'
+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. E.g arm-linux- ."
+TARGET_CC_ARCH[doc] = "FIXME"
+TARGET_FPU[doc] = "Floating point option (mostly for FPU-less systems), can be 'soft' or empty \
+for hardware floating point instructions."
+
+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.'
+
+IPKG_ARCHS[doc] = 'A list of architectures compatible with the given target in order of priority'
+IPKG_EXTRA_ARCHS[doc] = 'Set this variable to add extra architectures to the list of supported architectures'
+
+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 but can be changed."
+PR[doc] = "PR is the revision of the package (Package Revision). By default it is set to r0."
+PF[doc] = "Package name - Package version - Package revision (PN-PV-PR)"
+P[doc] = "Package name - Package version (PN-PF)"
+S[doc] = "Directory that holds the sources to build, WORKDIR/PN-PV by default. The 'make' or equivalent command is run from this directory."
+SECTION[doc] = "Section of the packages e.g. console/networking"
+PRIORITY[doc] = "Importance of package, default values are 'optional' or 'needed'."
+DESCRIPTION[doc] = "A small description of the package."
+LICENSE[doc] = "The license of the resulting package e.g. GPL"
+AUTHOR[doc] = "The author of the files installed."
+MAINTAINER[doc] = "Maintainer of the .bb file and the resulting package."
+HOMEPAGE[doc] = "Homepage of the package e.g. http://www.project.net."
+
+
+# dependencies
+GROUP_dependencies[doc] = "The keys in this group influence the dependency handling of BitBake \
+and the resulting packages."
+DEPENDS[doc] = "Build time dependencies, things needed to build the package. @group dependencies"
+RDEPENDS[doc] = "Run time dependencies, things needed for a given package to run. This is used to populate the ipkg:Depends field. @group dependencies"
+PROVIDES[doc] = "Names for additional build time dependencies that this package will provide. @group dependencies"
+RPROVIDES[doc] = "Names for additional run time dependencies that this package will provide. This is used to populate the ipkg:Provides field. @group dependencies"
+
+
+# packaging
+GROUP_packaging[doc] = "The keys in this group influence the package building process. They influence \
+which packages will be generated and which files will be present in the generated packages."
+PACKAGES[doc] = "Names of packages to be generated. @group packaging"
+FILES[doc] = "Files/Directories belonging to the package. @group packaging"
+
+
+
+TMPDIR[doc] = "The temporary directory of openembedded holding work-, deploy, staging- and other directories."
+CACHE[doc] = "The directory holding the cache of the metadata."
+
+GROUP_fetcher[doc] = "The key highly influence the fetcher implementations."
+DL_DIR[doc] = "The directory where tarballs will be stored. @group fetcher"
+CVSDIR[doc] = "The directory where cvs checkouts will be stored in. @group fetcher"
+GITDIR[doc] = "The directory where git clones will be stored. @group fetcher"
+
+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] = "Temporary directory within the WORKDIR."
+
+GROUP_locale[doc] = "Locale generation of the GNU libc implementation"
+ENABLE_BINARY_LOCALE_GENERATION[doc] = "Enable the use of qemu to generate locale information during build time on the host instead of runtime on the target. If you have trouble with qemu-native you should make this an empty var. @group locale"
+
+PCMCIA_MANAGER[doc] = "Specify which package(s) to install to handle PCMCIA slots (usually pcmcia-cs or pcmciautils)."
+
+SYSVINIT_ENABLED_GETTYS[doc] = "Specify which VTs should be running a getty, the default is 1"
+
+# palmtop build class
+PALMTOP_USE_MULTITHREADED_QT[doc] = "Set to yes, if you want to build qt apps with CONFIG+=thread"
+
+COMPATIBLE_HOST[doc] = "A regular expression which matches the HOST_SYS names supported by the package/file. Failure to match will cause the file to be skipped by the parser."
+COMPATIBLE_MACHINE[doc] = "A regular expression which matches the MACHINES support by the package/file. Failure to match will cause the file to be skipped by the parser."