[L2Ork-dev] CI build times

[Jonathan Wilkes]

Ok, it seems to be chugging away. We'll see what happens:

https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data/-/jobs/22565

-Jonathan

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:43 AM Jonathan Wilkes <jon.w.wilkes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 11:19 PM Albert Graef <aggraef at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > No, that build log is much too short. Maybe you haven't checked out the submodules? (See "Skipping Git submodules setup" in the log.)
>
> All I did was to replace the direct call to tar_em_up.sh in
> .gitlab-ci.yml with a call to "make GEM_MAKEFLAGS=-j2". in the main
> directory of the repo.
>
> If that doesn't automatically check out all the necessary submodules
> then something is broken with either the toplevel makefile or with the
> handling of the GEM_MAKEFLAGS variable.
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> Well, I'll go in and nuke any cached container I have and try again.
>
> -Jonathan
>
> >
> > 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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> >
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