* Re: [Buildroot] How to control make '-j' parallel job limit? [not found] ` <aYI5ces8h1-KOmDJ@windsurf> @ 2026-02-03 18:21 ` Grant Edwards 2026-02-03 21:38 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Grant Edwards @ 2026-02-03 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw) To: buildroot; +Cc: buildroot On 2026-02-03, Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 04:38:13PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> How, from the command-line, do we control the '-j' value used by >> buildroot when doing makes? >> >> We have BR2_JLIMIT set to 0 (auto), and most of the time it uses an > > I assume you're talking about BR2_JLEVEL. [...] > I must be confused by your question, because the answer is in the > question itself: use BR2_JLEVEL. Set it to 8, and it will pass -j8 > when building packages. Doh! My apologies. As you noticed, about one time out of three I seem to type LIMIT instead of LEVEL, and they're visually similar enough that I don't notice even after looking at the file repeatedly. I apparently tested make BR2_JLIMIT=3 instead of make BR2_JLEVEL=3 Sorry for the noise. -- Grant _______________________________________________ buildroot mailing list buildroot@buildroot.org https://lists.buildroot.org/mailman/listinfo/buildroot ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: [Buildroot] How to control make '-j' parallel job limit? 2026-02-03 18:21 ` [Buildroot] How to control make '-j' parallel job limit? Grant Edwards @ 2026-02-03 21:38 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot @ 2026-02-03 21:38 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Grant Edwards; +Cc: buildroot, buildroot On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 06:21:43PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > Doh! My apologies. As you noticed, about one time out of three I seem > to type LIMIT instead of LEVEL, and they're visually similar enough > that I don't notice even after looking at the file repeatedly. > > I apparently tested > > make BR2_JLIMIT=3 > > instead of > > make BR2_JLEVEL=3 > > Sorry for the noise. No worries, glad that it works for you now! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training https://bootlin.com _______________________________________________ buildroot mailing list buildroot@buildroot.org https://lists.buildroot.org/mailman/listinfo/buildroot ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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