[Buildroot] Buildroot and top-level parallel make
Arnout Vandecappelle
arnout at mind.be
Sat Jul 14 21:37:48 UTC 2012
On 07/13/12 12:34, Alex Bradbury wrote:
> On 4 July 2012 13:20, Alex Bradbury<asb at asbradbury.org> wrote:
>> > On 28 June 2012 13:34, Alex Bradbury<asb at asbradbury.org> wrote:
>>> >> I was wondering what the outcome of experiments to allow top-level
>>> >> parallelism were? What are the major barriers to allowing this? Is it
>>> >> still something seen as feasible to add to buildroot, or is it looking
>>> >> like it would add too much complexity?
>> >
>> > Thomas, I was wondering if you'd been able to recall what issues your
>> > initial experiments with top-level parallel make faced?
> I hate to be a pain...but ping?
I guess Thomas doesn't remember :-)
I believe the main problem is in the non-package targets, e.g.
target-generic-hostname. They are just added to TARGETS without
further dependencies. Same is true for the toolchain: it is just
prepended to TARGETS.
Changing that requires careful thinking about how the TARGETS work,
and is not easy to verify because there are a lot of corner cases involved.
Regards,
Arnout
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