Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:58:29 -0800 From: Sean Bruno <sbruno@ignoranthack.me> To: mva@freebsd.org, sson@freebsd.org Cc: Antoine Brodin <antoine@freebsd.org>, python@freebsd.org Subject: Re: python waf bypasses _MAKE_JOBS number Message-ID: <54B578E5.2010003@ignoranthack.me> In-Reply-To: <20150110002908.Horde.QrB60C0_PExk9ypkaJhFiA1@webmail.df.eu> References: <54AC74E0.4050404@ignoranthack.me> <20150107072132.GA1050@medusa.sysfault.org> <54AD5BB9.2060701@ignoranthack.me> <1420653060968-5979111.post@n5.nabble.com> <20150109183334.Horde.DDLUOEFT2TrMFUcP63h_9Q1@webmail.df.eu> <54B0154B.80801@ignoranthack.me> <CAALwa8=q-3ZAQRxkgU0_EJL4qHYoA2%2BtE-=9%2BODSVi-uHeP2Aw@mail.gmail.com> <54B019C1.7090704@ignoranthack.me> <20150110002908.Horde.QrB60C0_PExk9ypkaJhFiA1@webmail.df.eu>
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On 01/09/15 15:29, Marcus von Appen wrote:
> Sean Bruno <sbruno@ignoranthack.me>:
>
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>> On 01/09/15 11:10, Antoine Brodin wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Sean Bruno
>>> <sbruno@ignoranthack.me> wrote:
>>>> Marcus:
>>>>
>>>> The thing that I would like "fixed" is python waf ignoring
>>>> the fact that it should not try and detect the number of CPUs
>>>> on the system.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Let me rephrase the problem, there are some problems in some
>>> individual ports using waf. Those ports do not respect
>>> ${MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER}, especially when MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=1. This
>>> breaks qemu which is not multi job friendly (people using
>>> qemu have DISABLE_MAKE_JOBS=yes which sets MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER to
>>> 1).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Antoine
>>>
>>
>> YES. :-) Sorry for the confusion.
>
> Just to be a bit more specific: we are not talking about a waf
> port, but about some (still unknown) waf scripts in the upstream
> package, correct? Since this is the usual way, waf is used. Please
> point us to the correct scripts/call hierarchy/whatever that allows
> us to investigate, what the port actually does at the build phase.
>
> waf issues usually need to be fixed (since it's somewhat similar
> to a cmake, scons or autotools configuration/build file) on the
> problematic port or via injection, hence we need the information
> about how the build is done or at least a pointer, where to look
> at.
>
> I'm leaving the threading issue aside here, since (for now) there
> is not enough information (for me) to address this. Let's get the
> build issue sorted out first, then take a look at Python's
> threading support for non-amd64 and non-i386 platforms on FreeBSD.
>
> Cheers Marcus
>
>
For now, I'm going to start looking into Makefile patches to setup the
correct variables so that waf doesn't assume we want number of CPU's
detected.
sean
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