[Buildroot] Buildroot and top-level parallel make

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 07/13/12 12:34, Alex Bradbury wrote:
> On 4 July 2012 13:20, Alex Bradbury<asb@asbradbury.org>  wrote:
>> >  On 28 June 2012 13:34, Alex Bradbury<asb@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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