This is a custom version of [buildsys] (http://github.com/Midar/buildsys), designed for massively parallel builds. The differences between official buildsys and this buildsys are:
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A large amount of shell has been replaced with gmake builtin rule generation features.
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You can use V=1 to get CFLAGS and LDFLAGS passed to commands.
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Multiple
SUBDIRSmay be compiled in parallel. This ensures that there are no stalls in the build process on multi-core boxes. If there is anything to build, we will be building it. -
Dependency generation is on a per-sourceunit basis and done entirely in parallel, including across multiple
SUBDIRS. This speeds up builds by allowing dependency generation to already be completed when you get deeper in the source tree. -
The messages produced by the buildsystem have been changed so that V=1 output doesn't look strange.
Other than that, it is mostly compatible with official buildsys at an "API level."
In terms of performance increase, on stock buildsys, make -j4 takes around 50 seconds to build audacious-plugins. On this fork, the build time is cut down to around 20 seconds. That's a pretty big increase.
The way we parallelize SUBDIRS is by converting each SUBDIR into a make task. If a specific SUBDIR depends on another SUBDIR, you should denote it like so:
SUBDIRS = subdir1 subdir2 subdir3 subdir4
# subdir2 depends on subdir1
subdir2: subdir1
# subdir3 depends on both subdir1 and subdir4
subdir3: subdir2 subdir4This results in subdir1 and subdir4 being built first, then subdir2 and subdir3 respectively.
Put your SUBDIRS before your include lines. You really are supposed to do this in buildsys anyway, but for some reason it sometimes lets you put it after the fact.
My fork does not let you do that as SUBDIRS are turned into make tasks.
Sorry, but in order to avoid using the shell unnecessarily, we have to depend on GNU-make specific behaviour. Use gmake instead.