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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2013-09-23 10:18:42 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2013-10-01 22:52:51 +0100
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ref-manual: Updated the PARALLEL_MAKE definition.
Re-worded the first sentence. (From yocto-docs rev: 1b6798a8de3d73418b4377cf3b9654dfea4caed8) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -3751,8 +3751,10 @@ 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>Specifies extra options that are passed to the <filename>make</filename> command during the
- compile tasks.
+ <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
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