[L2Ork-dev] CI build times

[Albert Graef]

No, that build log is much too short. Maybe you haven't checked out the
submodules? (See "Skipping Git submodules setup" in the log.)

In any case, the GEM_MAKEFLAGS option isn't to blame for that, I'm using
that every time for Windows builds on my NUC, it works.

Albert



On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 9:27 PM Jonathan Wilkes <jon.w.wilkes at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 1:13 PM Albert Graef <aggraef at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > One thing that works really well, though, is building Gem in parallel
> which reduces build times dramatically.
> > This is in the current build system, you can trigger it by invoking
> `make` in the toplevel source directory like
> > so:
>
> > make GEM_MAKEFLAGS=-j8
>
> Even on my nuc with only 2 cores, setting "-j2" cuts the build time in
> half.
>
> Albert-- I'm suspicious whether it's even building Gem:
>
> https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data/-/jobs/22545/raw
>
> Where's the log of that slow, plodding libtool compilation that
> usually looks like this:
>
> make[6]: Entering directory
> '/home/user/builds/jwilkes/purr-data/Gem/src/Controls'
>   CXX      libControls_la-gemframebuffer.lo
>   CXX      libControls_la-gemcubeframebuffer.lo
>   CXX      libControls_la-gemhead.lo
>
>
> Also, I see this make message:
>
> make[6]: Entering directory '/builds/jwilkes/purr-data/Gem/src/Controls'
> UNUSED SOURCES in .: libControls_la-gemhead.o
> libControls_la-gemcubeframebuffer.o libControls_la-gemlist_info.o
> libControls_la-gemlist_matrix.o libControls_la-gemmanager.o
> libControls_la-gemreceive.o libControls_la-gemframebuffer.o
> libControls_la-render_trigger.o libControls_la-gemlist.o
> libControls_la-modelfiler.o
>
> Unfortunately, I can't be sure because Gem isn't hooked up to the
> external creation tests yet.
>
> Anyhow, are you seeing build times cut in half by this optimization?
>
> -Jonathan
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Dr. Albert Gr"af
Computer Music Research Group, JGU Mainz, Germany
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