[U-Boot] MAKEALL

[Simon Glass]

Hi York,


On 4 January 2014 02:21, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:

> Dear York,
>
> In message <52C7424A.4090205 at freescale.com> you wrote:
> >
> > I have some troubles to run MAKEALL with BUILD_NBUILDS. If I set
> BUILD_NBUILDS
> > to 2 or greater, there is a good chance the total number of targets is
> not an
> > integral multiple of BUILD_NBUILDS. It has two undesired results.
> >
> > 1. The status report has wrong number of passed builds.
> > 2. This script throws out SIGTERM.
> >
> > The second one is troubling me. I am using Jenkins to monitor and build
> > automatically. I can trap the SIGTERM on some hosts but not all of them.
> >
> > Can you shed some light on this?
>
> I'm sorry, but I am not familiar with this BUILD_NBUILDS code at all.
> It was added by Andy Fleming, so maybe he can help.
>
> Andy?
>

It might also be worth looking at tools/buildman, which automatically
allocates one build thread per CPU.

Regards,
Simon