Re: [PATCH 1/2] gitlab-ci.yml: Allow custom make parallelism

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 23/02/21 20:34, Daniele Buono wrote:
> This works, but setting this value to 1 for everybody seems a bit too
> restrictive. While the gitlab ci runners don't have enough memory for
> this, that's not necessarily true for every build platform, and linking
> multiple targets in parallel with LTO can result in a big save in time,
> so I'd prefer a customizable way.
>
> How about adding a flag `--max-ld-procs` to configure to manually set
> backend_max_links?

Another possibility is to invoke "meson configure build 
-Dbackend_max_links=1" after configure.

Paolo

> This would also allow setting it up to any specific number above 1,
> which looking at the Makefile seems to not be possible now: because of
> how the -j flag is passed from make to ninja, a compilation is either
> sequential or parallel based on #cpus