From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 15:43:01 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH next v8 5/6] docs/manual: add details about top-level parallel build support In-Reply-To: <20191105164646.23820-6-thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Tue, 5 Nov 2019 17:46:44 +0100") References: <20191105164646.23820-1-thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> <20191105164646.23820-6-thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> Message-ID: <875zj2aglm.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni > --- > docs/manual/common-usage.txt | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > docs/manual/faq-troubleshooting.txt | 3 ++ > docs/manual/quickstart.txt | 8 ++--- > 3 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > diff --git a/docs/manual/common-usage.txt b/docs/manual/common-usage.txt > index a87980d4a2..2d315de440 100644 > --- a/docs/manual/common-usage.txt > +++ b/docs/manual/common-usage.txt > @@ -347,6 +347,53 @@ Refer to the help text of this script for more details: > utils/size-stats-compare -h > ---------------- > +[[top-level-parallel-build]] > +=== Top-level parallel build > + > +.Note > +This section deals with a very experimental feature, which is known to > +break even in some non-unusual situations. Use at your own risk. > + > +Buildroot has always been capable of using parallel build on a per > +package basis: each package is built by Buildroot using +make -jN+ (or > +the equivalent invocation for non-make-based build systems). The level > +of parallelism is by default number of CPUs + 1, but it can be > +adjusted using the +BR2_JLEVEL+ configuration option. > + > +Until 2019.02, Buildroot was however building packages in a serial Committed to next after changing the version reference to Buildroot 2020.02, thanks. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard