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From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/Makefile.in: set .NOTPARALLEL for MAKE1
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 18:35:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221016163543.GM2503@scaer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221016162654.GL2503@scaer>

On 2022-10-16 18:26 +0200, Yann E. MORIN spake thusly:
> James, All,
> 
> On 2022-10-14 18:56 -0600, James Hilliard spake thusly:
> > Make 4.4 introduces a shuffle mode which randomizes prerequisites
> > in order to better flush out issues with parallel builds, as this
> > mode randomizes prerequisites even when using -j1 builds we must
> > instead explicitely mark parallel incompatible builds using the
> > .NOTPARALLEL special target which disables prerequisites
> > randomization when running in shuffle mode.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  package/Makefile.in | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/package/Makefile.in b/package/Makefile.in
> > index 43d214bcbe..2327849a1f 100644
> > --- a/package/Makefile.in
> > +++ b/package/Makefile.in
> > @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ else
> >  PARALLEL_JOBS := $(BR2_JLEVEL)
> >  endif
> >  
> > -MAKE1 := $(HOSTMAKE) -j1
> > +MAKE1 := $(HOSTMAKE) --eval .NOTPARALLEL:
> 
> Packages that do not build in parallel do not because their rules assume
> the ordering is kept.
> 
> I don't see how replacing -j1 with --eval .NOTPARALLEL: would cause the
> ordering to be restored.

Ah, it's in the --shuffle documentation, not in the .NOTPARALLEL one (and
reading .texi source is not my main ability).

Still, I think my proposal is better, because it is more explicit.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> Instead, I would have expected we do something like:
> 
>     # Only build one job at a time, *and* to not randomise goals and
>     # prerequisites ordering in make 4.4+
>     MAKE1 := $(HOSTMAKE) -j1 $(if $(findstring --shuffle,$(MAKEFLAGS)),--shuffle=none)
> 
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
> 
> >  override MAKE = $(HOSTMAKE) \
> >  	$(if $(findstring j,$(filter-out --%,$(MAKEFLAGS))),,-j$(PARALLEL_JOBS))
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.34.1
> > 
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-16 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-15  0:56 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/Makefile.in: set .NOTPARALLEL for MAKE1 James Hilliard
2022-10-16 16:26 ` Yann E. MORIN
2022-10-16 16:35   ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2022-10-16 16:53     ` James Hilliard
2022-10-16 18:46       ` Yann E. MORIN
2022-10-16 19:18         ` James Hilliard

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