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

[Daniele Buono]

On 2/24/2021 2:44 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 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.

I like this, I'll send a v2 soon where I replace this patch with one
just for linking.

Daniele