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On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 18:22 +0000, Daniel Lazzari wrote:
> I was wondering if there=E2=80=99s a way to override a variable=E2=80=99=
s value
> specifically for a single task.

There is indeed. As an example:

$ cat meta/conf/bitbake.conf | grep PARALLEL
EXTRA_OEMAKE_prepend_task-compile =3D "${PARALLEL_MAKE} "

which overrides EXTRA_OEMAKE for the compile task.

Cheers,

RIchard