Hi All,
I noticed some packages (like ncurses, ppp, ...) that don't like the parallel
make (with -jX X>1).
My proposal is to define:
MAKEJ1=$(MAKE)
MAKE:=$(MAKE) -j$(CONFIG_JOBS)
and use MAKEJ1 for these packages until we don't fix the issue.
is it ok?
ciao
luigi
Il domenica 18 ottobre 2009 18:39:05 Felix Fietkau ha scritto:
> Luigi Mantellini wrote:
> > Hi Felix
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Felix Fietkau <n...@openwrt.org> wrote:
> >> Though you prefer this option, I believe using external toolchain
> >> support in OpenWrt will always be the exception, not the rule. We can
> >> easily add toolchains like CodeSourcery's or ELDK's to our own build
> >> infrastructure, as their sources are open as well.
> >> Even external toolchain support itself does not guarantee any form of
> >> consistency, since you could have accidentally used the wrong toolchain
> >> and the system might not notice. Because of that, I also consider the
> >> dependency on external toolchains to be bogus.
> >
> > Ok. I agree. I know that "external" is not equivalent to say "reliable".
> >
> >> Here's how I would ensure consistency:
> >> - Change OpenWrt toolchain identification string to include the arch
> >> - On each distcc build host, compile a simple test program such as
> >> 'int main(int argc, char **argv){ return 0; }' to assembler and grep for
> >> the .ident string and compare it against the same thing on the local
> >> machine.
> >
> > ok good idea.
> >
> > Anyway, I include my last patch version. I just tested compiling a
> > kernel and busybox of an arm target using the codesourcery
> > toolchain... it seems to work fine but I interrupted the compilation
> > (today is sunday... and I need to see also the sun).
> > We can consider this patch as start point, if you agree.
>
> Yep, sounds good. By the way, I'm currently working on integrating a gcc
> version with CodeSourcery patches into OpenWrt. Maybe that way you also
> won't have to use external toolchains anymore. I've stripped the diff of
> the latest codesourcery toolchain against upstream gcc 4.3.3 down to
> around 2M in size and merged it with our other patches. I'm currently
> checking whether it compiles...
>
> - Felix
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