linux-kernel - RE: I disabled more compiler warnings..

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Date:   Mon, 11 May 2020 21:09:03 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     "'psmith@....org'" <psmith@....org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: I disabled more compiler warnings..

From: Paul Smith
> Sent: 11 May 2020 18:59
> On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 10:41 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 12:43 AM David Laight <
> > David.Laight@...lab.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've not looked inside gmake, but I fixed nmake so that it
> > > properly used a single job token pipe for the entire (NetBSD)
> > > build and then flushed and refilled it with 'abort' tokens
> > > when any command failed.
> > > That made the build stop almost immediately.
> >
> > The GNU jobserver doesn't have anything like that, afaik.
> >
> > I think it always writes a '+' character as a token, so I guess it
> > could be extended to write something else for the "abort now"
> > situation (presumably a '-' character).
> 
> That was exactly my plan.

ISTR using '*' :-) Was a long time ago.

One problem is ensuring that all the recursive makes actually
use the same token queue.
The Linux kernel build acts as though the sub-makes have their
own queue - I certainly had to fix that as well.

	David

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