Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] tests/uefi-test-tools: add build scripts

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 19:09, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> wrote:
> It wasn't clear to me whether and how multi-threaded builds were
> supposed to be used by maintainers, whenever they'd update
> "tests/data/uefi-boot-images/*".
>
> I saw that "make" was invoked everywhere as $(MAKE), but that didn't
> clarify any intent around "-j". So I didn't test "-j" at all, and in
> fact I wouldn't have expected it to work:

The usual assumption with make is that "-jN" should work
and at least (if the thing being built can't actually
be parallelized usefully) be no worse than if you'd not
specified a -j option. We have occasionally had problems
with -jN in 'make check' (usually because several test cases
were trying to use the same temp filename or similar) but
we've treated them as bugs and squashed them.

> The "build" base tool in edk2 implements part of the job with generated
> makefiles and invoking "make" itself, thus, despite .NOTPARALLEL, it
> likely inherits the outermost -j<N> setting -- and it doesn't expect such.
>
> So the best I can offer here is to check $MAKEFLAGS in "build.sh", and
> exit with an early, explicit error if $MAKEFLAGS contains "-j", "-l", or
> their long variants (--jobs, --load-average).

Could you sanitize MAKEFLAGS in build.sh instead to remove the
parallelization options?

thanks
-- PMM