[Buildroot] Parallel make messes up post-build in -next

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin at gmail.com
Thu Feb 20 15:04:03 UTC 2014


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> On 20/02/14 15:28, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
>> Hi Fabio,
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Fabio Porcedda
>> <fabio.porcedda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [..]
>>>
>>> Yes, it's a thing to fix for proper parallel bulding support, it's on
>>> my todo list.
>>>
>>> The targets target-finalize, target-purgelocales,
>>> target-generatelocales, toolchain-eclipse-register can be executed in
>>> parallel after building the generic targets?
>>
>> Since you can select both purgelocales and generatelocales, I would
>> expect they need to be sequential: first purge then generate (as done
>> today).
>
>  True.
>
>> I'd also expect that target-finalize should be finished before
>> starting the locale stuff, as the post-build script or overlay may add
>> additional locale stuff that needs to be purged.
>
>  Hm, I would actually expect the reverse: whatever my post-build script
> or overlay does should be final, and not be removed again by
> purgelocales. But that is in fact not what happens at the moment.

I also had the same doubt, but what I wrote is just to mimic the
non-parallel behavior.
The changing of the order of locale stuff and post-build is not
related to the parallel build.

Best regards,
Thomas


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