# this file holds documentation for known keys, possible values and # their meaning. Please update, correct and extend this documentation. # Mail your changes to openembedded-devel@openembedded.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.' PACKAGE_ARCHS[doc] = 'A list of architectures compatible with the given target in order of priority' PACKAGE_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] = "Distributions can put this in their .conf file to add their contact information into packages, this is not valid inside recipes" 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."