[Buildroot] [PATCH] packages/exim: enable parallel make

Peter Korsgaard
2020-05-06T07:39:40Z

>>>>> "Luca" == Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net> writes:

> Hi Peter,
> On 06/05/20 08:00, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>>> "Luca" == Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net> 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 <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
>> > Cc: Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls@t-online.de>
>>
>> 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.

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Bye, Peter Korsgaard