Hi Randy, On Mon, 2024-04-08 at 17:39 -0400, Randy MacLeod wrote: > On 2024-04-03 3:08 p.m., Martin Hundebøll wrote: > > On Wed, 2024-04-03 at 17:58 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote: > > > We can't carry this mass of patches. It has to land upstream > > > first. > > > > > Understandable. > > > > > > Are you able/willing to drive the upstream pull request to > > > completion? > > > > > No, I don't think so. I'm not familiar with the ninja codebase, and > > the > > pull requests has been lingering for too long. > > > > Another option might be to propose adding the fifo feature to the > > kitware fork of ninja: > > https://github.com/Kitware/ninja > > > > They have forked ninja to get the jobserver feature in, but haven't > > taken the fifo part so far. > > > > The kitware fork is also used by buildroot: > > https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/blob/master/package/ninja/ninja.mk > > > I see that v2 has switched to kitware, which is fine in the short > run. > > I'm just back from vacation. I plan to test this patchset out. > > I can spend some time convincing upstream ninja that a solution is > needed for our use-case and > that perhaps the jobsever approach and the kitware fork is a good > starting point. > > Of course, I can't promise to "drive it to completion" but I'll > hound the upstream devs for months or even years! > > Thanks for re-submitting the patchset Martin! >
I got hit by a strike of motivation and submitted a new attempt on jobserver support to ninja: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/pull/2450 First review from the ninja maintainer seems positive. I'll resubmit the my patchset to OE once the ninja PR is (hopefully) merged. // Martin
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