Andy Fleming f588bb034d Allow for parallel builds and saved output ...

The MAKEALL script cleverly runs make with the appropriate options
to use all of the cores on the system, but your average U-Boot build
can't make much use of more than a few cores.  If you happen to have
a many-core server, your builds will leave most of the system idle.

In order to make full use of such a system, we need to build multiple
targets in parallel, and this requires directing make output into
multiple directories. We add a BUILD_NBUILDS variable, which allows
users to specify how many builds to run in parallel.
When BUILD_NBUILDS is set greater than 1, we redefine BUILD_DIR for
each build to be ${BUILD_DIR}/${target}. Also, we make "./build" the
default BUILD_DIR when BUILD_NBUILDS is greater than 1.

MAKEALL now tracks which builds are still running, and when one
finishes, it starts a new build.

Once each build finishes, we run "make tidy" on its directory, to reduce
the footprint.

As a result, we are left with a build directory with all of the built
targets still there for use, which means anyone who wanted to use
MAKEALL as part of a test harness can now do so.

Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>

2012-04-30 16:52:19 +02:00

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