Hah, no ignore this.
I managed to not make it build the slow tools...
Back to the drawing board.
On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 06:08:14PM +0000, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> Commit 9e1131b70b4b
> ("BaseTools: Update BaseTools top GNUMakefile with the clear dependency")
> made parallel builds of BaseTools possible. However, the two utilities
> BrotliCompress and VfrCompile have substantially longer build (and
> especially link) time than the others - which leads to long waiting
> times. Build these two tools separately first, in order to reduce build
> time.
>
> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
> Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <[email protected]>
> ---
>
> For comparison, this reduces the build time on my x86 machine (8 cores,
> 16 threads) down from >9s to <3s.
> On the Cortex-A53 based 24-core SynQuacer platform, it takes the build
> time down from 1m26s to 20s.
>
> BaseTools/Source/C/GNUmakefile | 9 ++++++---
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/BaseTools/Source/C/GNUmakefile b/BaseTools/Source/C/GNUmakefile
> index 0dc748267d..b7ddcb5022 100644
> --- a/BaseTools/Source/C/GNUmakefile
> +++ b/BaseTools/Source/C/GNUmakefile
> @@ -50,9 +50,11 @@ all: makerootdir subdirs
> LIBRARIES = Common
> VFRAUTOGEN = VfrCompile/VfrLexer.h
> # NON_BUILDABLE_APPLICATIONS = GenBootSector BootSectImage
> -APPLICATIONS = \
> +SLOW_APPLICATIONS = \
> BrotliCompress \
> - VfrCompile \
> + VfrCompile
> +
> +APPLICATIONS = \
> GnuGenBootSector \
> BootSectImage \
> EfiLdrImage \
> @@ -72,7 +74,8 @@ APPLICATIONS = \
> SUBDIRS := $(LIBRARIES) $(APPLICATIONS)
>
> $(LIBRARIES): $(MAKEROOT)/libs
> -$(APPLICATIONS): $(LIBRARIES) $(MAKEROOT)/bin $(VFRAUTOGEN)
> +$(SLOW_APPLICATIONS): $(LIBRARIES) $(MAKEROOT)/bin $(VFRAUTOGEN)
> +$(APPLICATIONS): $(SLOW_APPLICATIONS)
>
> .PHONY: outputdirs
> makerootdir:
> --
> 2.11.0
>
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