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author | Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de> | 2016-05-29 12:20:50 +0200 |
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committer | Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de> | 2016-05-29 13:33:00 +0200 |
commit | 5c5e0d547903b8c69be88fb965ffe5dbf9925bef (patch) | |
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parent | 30b9267e35eea1c2edb4da0231a428bfa25b6766 (diff) | |
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doc: document --output-sync
Signed-off-by: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
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diff --git a/doc/ref_parameter.rst b/doc/ref_parameter.rst index a6250f328..f2ea2ae18 100644 --- a/doc/ref_parameter.rst +++ b/doc/ref_parameter.rst @@ -256,6 +256,20 @@ Options ``--verbose``, ``-v`` be more verbose, print command before execute them +``--output-sync``, ``--no-output-sync`` + enable or disable output synchronization. By default output + synchronization is only enabled for quiet builds. Output synchronization + is implemented by the ``make`` ``--output-sync`` option. For building + packages in parallel, ``--output-sync=recurse`` is used. For individual + ``make`` commands in the build stages ``--output-sync=target`` is used. + This means, that the output for each individual make target and each + build stage is grouped together. + + Note: If output synchronization enabled then the output for each build + stage is collected by make and won't be visible until the build stage is + completed. As a result, there will be long periods of time with no + visible progress. + ``--j-intern=<n>``, ``-ji<n>`` set number of parallel jobs within packages. PTXdist will use this number for example when calling ``make`` during the compile stage. |