[scripts] pass %{_smp_mflags} to make(1) in scripts/package/mkspec

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Tue Sep 07 2004 - 17:01:43 EST


On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 02:17:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Yes, I get them too, with make -j6(ish). I used to get tons of these
> warnings, but it stopped happening maybe a year ago. It looks like Sam
> found a way to bring it back ;)

This appears to have a specific effect, which is that make -j$N rpm in
fact runs single-threaded. I've been using the following patch on SuSE
and RedHat systems for a while.

This patch passes %{_smp_mflags} to various build phases in
scripts/package/mkspec so that -j$N is honored by make rpm.


-- wli

Index: mm2-2.6.8-rc2/scripts/package/mkspec
===================================================================
--- mm2-2.6.8-rc2.orig/scripts/package/mkspec 2004-08-02 03:03:55.000000000 -0700
+++ mm2-2.6.8-rc2/scripts/package/mkspec 2004-08-03 06:23:08.000000000 -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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