From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: York Sun Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:32:41 -0800 Subject: [U-Boot] buildman with distcc In-Reply-To: References: <54653853.4080406@freescale.com> <546538D4.6050309@freescale.com> <546546A7.6040806@freescale.com> <54654A08.3020101@freescale.com> Message-ID: <54654DA9.1040603@freescale.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 11/13/2014 04:30 PM, Simon Glass wrote: > Hi York, > > On 13 November 2014 17:17, York Sun wrote: >> On 11/13/2014 04:14 PM, Simon Glass wrote: >>> Hi York, >>> >>> On 13 November 2014 17:02, York Sun wrote: >>>> On 11/13/2014 04:01 PM, Simon Glass wrote: >>>>> Hi York, >>>>> >>>>> On 13 November 2014 16:03, York Sun wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On 11/13/2014 03:01 PM, York Sun wrote: >>>>>>> Simon, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Is it possible to use buildman with distcc? I am trying to speed up compiling. >>>>>>> Using MAKEALL or make I can specify CROSS_COMPILE="distcc >>>>>> don't know how to do this with buildman. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I meant to use buildman with multiple architectures, like 'arm & freescale' >>>>>> powerpc aarch64 together. >>>>> >>>>> I wonder what would happen if you put it in the '[toolchain]' section >>>>> of ~/.buildman ? >>>>> >>>> >>>> buildman --list-tool-chains cannot detect the toolchain if doing so. >>> >>> No, it works by looking for filenames rather than running the command >>> line. But that should not affect operation. >> >> The path in ./.buildman is partial. buildman appends other stuff to make a >> complete path. I need to put double quote for "distcc ". I don't >> see how that could work. > > It doesn't have to - if you give a complete path then it will use it. > You might need to change things in toolchain.py to make it work. See > MakeEnvironment() which sets up the environment for Make - > CROSS_COMPILE, PATH. > > Yes, one problem is that buildman uses objsize to find out the > code/data size. How can that work with distcc? Probably it won't. > >> >>> >>>> >>>> If not using buildman, I can modify Makefile to prefix distcc to CC and keep >>>> using MAKEALL. >>> >>> Indeed. I wonder why that doesn't work with buildman? >> >> Doesn't buildman checkout each commit? Modifying the Makefile doesn't survive a >> checkout. > > Well if you are using that feature out certainly can't use MAKEALL > since it doesn't support it. If you leave off the branch (-b) buildman > will build the current source and not check anything out. > I like to use buildman to build all the commits. Can I force CC with buildman? York