From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 06 May 2020 09:39:40 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] packages/exim: enable parallel make In-Reply-To: <26ba2f56-3ac7-3364-848c-4d0cd3a8c9a3@lucaceresoli.net> (Luca Ceresoli's message of "Wed, 6 May 2020 09:09:39 +0200") References: <20200420163645.17803-1-luca@lucaceresoli.net> <87wo5pbo14.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <26ba2f56-3ac7-3364-848c-4d0cd3a8c9a3@lucaceresoli.net> Message-ID: <87o8r1bjgj.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Luca" == Luca Ceresoli writes: > Hi Peter, > On 06/05/20 08:00, Peter Korsgaard wrote: >>>>>>> "Luca" == Luca Ceresoli writes: >> >> > Parallel make used to be broken in exim, as reported in its docs. Now that >> > line has disappeared from the docs, and parallel make is actually working. >> >> > Tested with 'make exim-dirclean ; time make BR2_JLEVEL=999 exim': builds >> > still succeed and the build time decreases from 34 to 11 seconds on my >> > host. >> >> > Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli >> > Cc: Bernd Kuhls >> >> Committed to 2020.02.x, thanks. > Does this patch really belong to a stable branch? I agree that it is a gray zone. Given that there weren't any followup fixups on master since then (or so I thought, it turned out my tree was not uptodate) I found it "safe". > If it does, then you should also apply [0] or we'll start seeing > parallel build failures on 2020.02.x too. > [0] > https://git.busybox.net/buildroot/commit/?id=8c75f95e0a3d2600015be5564ee9fe9393d95ebc I'll do so later today. Yann also pointed that out to me. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard