296799 - multiple configure execution

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

When I try to build xulrunner with parallel make this doesn't work:
I define my mozconfig file and then start
make -f client.mk -j20 build

The build log is attached and shows that two parallel configures are running
trying to do the same thing.

Comment 1

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

Attachment: build log

Comment 2

[Chase Phillips]

To run a parallel make you must add the line

  mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_OPTIONS="-jN"

to your mozconfig, N being your preferred parallel setting.  I have not tried
adding a -jN argument to the make -f client.mk .. command but I would expect it
to fail as that's not conceptually the correct level for the parallel make to
operate.

Please try altering your mozconfig and report back whether or not it worked for you.

Comment 3

[cls]

We don't support parallel makes at the client.mk level.  There's really no point
as most of those targets are designed be run serially.  And the variable that
you need to set is MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS not MOZ_MAKE_OPTIONS.