Re: kbuild: Various updates for 2.6.8

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Sat Jul 31 2004 - 16:18:55 EST


On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 09:58:38AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> I have arranged with Andrew that he sucks my kbuild tree in -mm,
> and this is the fist update I send direct to you.
> The following set of patches has been in -mm for a few days now
> with no complaints. Please include these before 2.6.8.
> bk pull bk://linux-sam.bkbits.net/kbuild
> The most important fix is the $LANG fix. Without this users
> from .cz, .fr etc. cannot use menuconfig/xconfig with good result.

By any chance could you update make rpm so it respects the -j flags?
Single-threaded make rpm is horrifically slow.

I'm using the patch below at the moment, but am not very particular
as to the form of the solution.


-- wli

Index: sched-2.6.8-rc2-mm1/scripts/package/mkspec
===================================================================
--- sched-2.6.8-rc2-mm1.orig/scripts/package/mkspec 2004-07-30 10:53:27.000000000 -0700
+++ sched-2.6.8-rc2-mm1/scripts/package/mkspec 2004-07-30 22:28:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -57,14 +57,14 @@
echo "%build"

if ! $PREBUILT; then
-echo "make clean && make"
+echo "make clean && make %{_smp_mflags}"
echo ""
fi

echo "%install"
echo 'mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/boot $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/lib $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/lib/modules'

-echo 'INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT make modules_install'
+echo 'INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT make %{_smp_mflags} modules_install'
echo 'cp $KBUILD_IMAGE $RPM_BUILD_ROOT'"/boot/vmlinuz-$VERSION.$PATCHLEVEL.$SUBLEVEL$EXTRAVERSION"

echo 'cp System.map $RPM_BUILD_ROOT'"/boot/System.map-$VERSION.$PATCHLEVEL.$SUBLEVEL$EXTRAVERSION"
-
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