[Buildroot] [PATCH] packages: fix and improve support for top-level parallel makefile

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 06/04/15 15:50, Fabio Porcedda wrote:
> To fix packages that fail to build when PARALLEL_JOBS is empty instead
> of using an empty PARALLEL_JOBS just avoid to using it in
> the MAKE variable.
> 
> Check the MAKEFLAGS variable to know automatically if the -j option is
> being used, but use the "=" operator instead of the ":=" operator
> because it can be checked only in a "recursively expanded variable".
> Use "override" because otherwise it's impossible to change the
> automatic variable "MAKE".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Makefile            | 4 ++--
>  package/Makefile.in | 3 ++-
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 8d09725..6c2dcca 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ export HOSTARCH := $(shell uname -m | \
>  #
>  # Taking into account the above considerations, if you still want to execute
>  # this top-level Makefile in parallel comment the ".NOTPARALLEL" line and
> -# build using the following command:
> -#	make BR2_JLEVEL= -j$((`getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN`+1))
> +# use the -j<jobs> option when building, e.g:
> +#      make -j$((`getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN`+1))
>  .NOTPARALLEL:
>  
>  # absolute path
> diff --git a/package/Makefile.in b/package/Makefile.in
> index fc57427..ed68e35 100644
> --- a/package/Makefile.in
> +++ b/package/Makefile.in
> @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ PARALLEL_JOBS := $(BR2_JLEVEL)
>  endif
>  
>  MAKE1 := $(HOSTMAKE) -j1
> -MAKE := $(HOSTMAKE) $(if $(PARALLEL_JOBS),-j$(PARALLEL_JOBS))
> +override MAKE = $(HOSTMAKE) \
> +	$(if $(findstring j,$(filter-out --%,$(MAKEFLAGS))),,-j$(PARALLEL_JOBS))

 Wouldn't it be much simpler to surround the definition of PARALLEL_JOBS at the
beginning of this file with

ifeq ($(findstring j,$(filter-out --%,$(MAKEFLAGS))),)
...
endif

?

 Regards,
 Arnout

>  
>  ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT),y)
>  TARGET_VENDOR = $(call qstrip,$(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_VENDOR))
> 


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