Re: Improving Build Speed

[Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 09:29:16PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> Hi Ulf,
> 
> > (3) Creating the rootfs seems to have zero parallelism.
> >      But I have not investigated if anything can be done.
> 
> This is something I do want to fix in 1.6. We need to convert the core
> to python to gain access to easier threading mechanisms though.
> Certainly parallel image type generation and compression would be a win
> here.

If you're building .bz2 images, then installing lbzip2/pbzip2 saves a
lot of time in FSTYPES creation.

> > DEPENDENCY BUGS
> > pangomm    needs to depend on "pango"
> >      Otherwise, the required pangocairo might not be available when 
> > pangomm is configured
> > 
> > goffice needs to depend on "librsvg gdk-pixbuf"
> >      Also on "gobject-2.0 gmodule-2.0 gio-2.0", but I  did not find 
> > those packages,
> >      so I assume they are generated somewhere. Did not investigate further.
> 
> I'm sure patches would be most welcome for bugs like this.

But please upgrade to latest layers first, because there 2 weren't
detected in my last test-dependencies.sh so I guess they were fixed
already.

http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2013-October/084905.html

You can use the same script to keep your new toy busy for a while :).

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa@gmail.com

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