From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:01:57 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 0/3] Fix for top-level parallel make part 1 In-Reply-To: References: <1374138746-23279-1-git-send-email-fabio.porcedda@gmail.com> <20130718113809.663c6b58@skate> <20130727131828.0442e227@skate> Message-ID: <20130730120157.0d32a58b@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Fabio Porcedda, On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:34:08 +0200, Fabio Porcedda wrote: > > As per OpenEmbedded/Bitbake, I was told a few years ago that they were > > not doing per-package sysroot, even though they are doing top-level > > parallel builds, and that this was sometimes causing some spurious > > failures or not completely reproducible builds. However, I haven't > > verified this myself, and this statement was made some years ago, so it > > may or may not longer be true. > > Unfortunately right now i've not enough time to work on the > per-package sysroot feature, maybe in the feature, i don't know. > > So are you going to accept this patch set even without per-package > sysroot feature? > IMHO top-level parallel make it's still a useful feature even without > per-package sysroot. > The per-package sysroot feature can be still added later. As we discussed in this thread, the problem is that the top-level parallel make feature is broken if you don't have per-package sysroot: builds become non-reproducible. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com