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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2014-01-24 15:44:24 -0600
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2014-02-11 12:17:05 +0000
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bitbake: user-manual-ref-variables.xml: Added 11 new variables to glossary.
SRCREV_FORMAT BUILDNAME BB_ENV_WHITELIST BB_PRESERVE_ENV BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE BB_ORIGENV BB_TASKHASH BITBAKE_UI BBDUBUG BB_DEFAULT_TASK BBINCLUDED (Bitbake rev: 0e3106bfdebfa255b2db08a8a4585516d8bebe20) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/bitbake/doc/user-manual/user-manual-ref-variables.xml b/bitbake/doc/user-manual/user-manual-ref-variables.xml
index 41c10bd..7d821ed 100644
--- a/bitbake/doc/user-manual/user-manual-ref-variables.xml
+++ b/bitbake/doc/user-manual/user-manual-ref-variables.xml
@@ -112,6 +112,17 @@
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
+ <glossentry id='var-BB_DEFAULT_TASK'><glossterm>BB_DEFAULT_TASK</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ The default task to use when none is specified (e.g.
+ with the <filename>-c</filename> command line option).
+ The task name specified should not include the
+ <filename>do_</filename> prefix.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
<glossentry id='var-BB_DISKMON_DIRS'><glossterm>BB_DISKMON_DIRS</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
@@ -267,6 +278,44 @@
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
+ <glossentry id='var-BB_ENV_WHITELIST'><glossterm>BB_ENV_WHITELIST</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ Specifies the internal whitelist of variables to allow
+ through from the external environment into BitBake's
+ datastore.
+ If the value of this variable is not specified
+ (which is the default), the following list is used:
+ <link linkend='var-BBPATH'><filename>BBPATH</filename></link>,
+ <link linkend='var-BB_PRESERVE_ENV'><filename>BB_PRESERVE_ENV</filename></link>,
+ <link linkend='var-BB_ENV_WHITELIST'><filename>BB_ENV_WHITELIST</filename></link>,
+ and
+ <link linkend='var-BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE'><filename>BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE</filename></link>.
+ <note>
+ You must set this variable in the external environment
+ in order for it to work.
+ </note>
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id='var-BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE'><glossterm>BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ Specifies an additional set of variables to allow through
+ (whitelist) from the external environment into BitBake's
+ datastore.
+ This list of variables are on top of the internal list
+ set in
+ <link linkend='var-BB_ENV_WHITELIST'><filename>BB_ENV_WHITELIST</filename></link>.
+ <note>
+ You must set this variable in the external
+ environment in order for it to work.
+ </note>
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
<glossentry id='var-BB_FETCH_PREMIRRORONLY'><glossterm>BB_FETCH_PREMIRRORONLY</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
@@ -451,6 +500,36 @@
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
+ <glossentry id='var-BB_ORIGENV'><glossterm>BB_ORIGENV</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ Contains a copy of the original external environment in
+ which BitBake was run.
+ The copy is taken before any whitelisted variable values
+ are filtered into BitBake's datastore.
+ <note>
+ The contents of this variable is a datastore object
+ that can be queried using the normal datastore
+ operations.
+ </note>
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id='var-BB_PRESERVE_ENV'><glossterm>BB_PRESERVE_ENV</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ Disables whitelisting and instead allows all variables
+ through from the external environment into BitBake's
+ datastore.
+ <note>
+ You must set this variable in the external
+ environment in order for it to work.
+ </note>
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
<glossentry id='var-BB_NUMBER_THREADS'><glossterm>BB_NUMBER_THREADS</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The maximum number of tasks BitBake should run in parallel at any one time.
@@ -703,6 +782,16 @@
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
+ <glossentry id='var-BB_TASKHASH'><glossterm>BB_TASKHASH</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ Within an executing task, this variable holds the hash
+ of the task as returned by the currently enabled
+ signature generator.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
<glossentry id='var-BB_VERBOSE_LOGS'><glossterm>BB_VERBOSE_LOGS</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
@@ -750,6 +839,20 @@
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
+ <glossentry id='var-BBDEBUG'><glossterm>BBDEBUG</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ Sets the BitBake debug output level to a specific value
+ as incremented by the <filename>-d</filename> command line
+ option.
+ <note>
+ You must set this variable in the external environment
+ in order for it to work.
+ </note>
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
<glossentry id='var-BBFILE_COLLECTIONS'><glossterm>BBFILE_COLLECTIONS</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Lists the names of configured layers.
@@ -809,6 +912,16 @@
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
+ <glossentry id='var-BBINCLUDED'><glossterm>BBINCLUDED</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ Contains a space-separated list of all of all files that
+ BitBake's parser included during parsing of the current
+ file.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
<glossentry id='var-BBINCLUDELOGS'><glossterm>BBINCLUDELOGS</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Variable that controls how BitBake displays logs on build failure.</para>
@@ -928,6 +1041,30 @@
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
+ <glossentry id='var-BITBAKE_UI'><glossterm>BITBAKE_UI</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ Used to specify the UI module to use when running BitBake.
+ Using this variable is equivalent to using the
+ <filename>-u</filename> command-line option.
+ <note>
+ You must set this variable in the external environment
+ in order for it to work.
+ </note>
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id='var-BUILDNAME'><glossterm>BUILDNAME</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ A name assigned to the build.
+ The name defaults to a datetime stamp of when the build was
+ started but can be defined by the metadata.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
</glossdiv>
<glossdiv id='var-glossary-c'><title>C</title>
@@ -1894,6 +2031,33 @@
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
+ <glossentry id='var-SRCREV_FORMAT'><glossterm>SRCREV_FORMAT</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ Helps construct valid
+ <link linkend='var-SRCREV'><filename>SRCREV</filename></link>
+ values when multiple source controlled URLs are used in
+ <link linkend='var-SRC_URI'><filename>SRC_URI</filename></link>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The system needs help constructing these values under these
+ circumstances.
+ Each component in the <filename>SRC_URI</filename>
+ is assigned a name and these are referenced
+ in the <filename>SRCREV_FORMAT</filename> variable.
+ Consider an example with URLs named "machine" and "meta".
+ In this case, <filename>SRCREV_FORMAT</filename> could look
+ like "machine_meta" and those names would have the SCM
+ versions substituted into each position.
+ Only one <filename>AUTOINC</filename> placeholder is added
+ and if needed.
+ And, this placeholder is placed at the start of the
+ returned string.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
<glossentry id='var-STAMP'><glossterm>STAMP</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
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