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| author | Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2013-09-23 10:21:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-10-01 22:52:52 +0100 |
| commit | 0f902628faf203e7a40748aac622b24c31685c25 (patch) | |
| tree | 3f50d4a5f8f0d8ebc31175cab0c404def7b4e6eb | |
| parent | 45ace75bbf37b358a8c9ffc3398a93b374dc8c03 (diff) | |
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ref-manual: Edits to PARALLEL_MAKE variable.
Added a note indicating that the variable might be cleared out
if there are problems running Make.
(From yocto-docs rev: 861921b86c48de2267ccd32ab3f3424a98eb8ed1)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml | 20 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml index 5f82602..1f49351 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml @@ -3751,14 +3751,24 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3" <glossentry id='var-PARALLEL_MAKE'><glossterm>PARALLEL_MAKE</glossterm> <glossdef> - <para>Extra options that are passed to the + <para> + Extra options that are passed to the <filename>make</filename> command during the <filename>do_compile</filename> task in order to specify parallel compilation. - 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 twice the number of cores on the host.</para> + 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 twice the number + of cores on the host. + <note> + Individual recipes might clear out this variable if + the software being built has problems running its + <filename>make</filename> process in parallel. + </note> + </para> </glossdef> </glossentry> |
