Re: kbuild: Various updates for 2.6.8

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli_at_holomorphy.com)
Date: 07/31/04

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    Date:	Sat, 31 Jul 2004 14:17:39 -0700
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

    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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