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docs/7 - Contributing to crosstool-NG.txt
author Michael Hope <michael.hope@linaro.org>
Thu Sep 29 12:40:42 2011 +1300 (2011-09-29)
changeset 2695 f2495884ca3e
parent 2077 b11117cdfdf7
child 2700 e8d25b041de5
permissions -rw-r--r--
config: add a 'auto' value for the number of parallel jobs

When CT_PARALLEL_JOBS is -1, set the number of parallel jobs to the
number of online CPUs + 1. Update documentation to match.

I find this useful when building in the cloud. You can use the same
.config file and have the build adapt to the number of processors
available. Limited testing shows that NCPUS+1 is faster than NCPUS+0
or NCPUS+2.

Signed-off-by: Michael Hope <michael.hope@linaro.org> 
     1 File.........: 7 - Contributing to crosstool-NG.txt

     2 Copyright....: (C) 2010 Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>

     3 License......: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike (CC-by-sa), v2.5

     4 

     5 

     6 Contributing to crosstool-NG  /

     7 _____________________________/

     8 

     9 

    10 Sending a bug report |

    11 ---------------------+

    12 

    13 If you need to send a bug report, please send a mail with subject

    14 prefixed with "[CT_NG]" with to following destinations:

    15     TO: yann.morin.1998 (at) anciens.enib.fr

    16     CC: crossgcc (at) sourceware.org

    17 

    18 

    19 Sending patches |

    20 ----------------+

    21 

    22 If you want to enhance crosstool-NG, there's a to-do list in the TODO file.

    23 

    24 Patches should come with the appropriate SoB line. A SoB line is typically

    25 something like:

    26    Signed-off-by: John DOE <john.doe@somewhere.net>

    27 

    28 The SoB line is clearly described in Documentation/SubmittingPatches , section

    29 12, of your favourite Linux kernel source tree.

    30 

    31 

    32 For larger or more frequent contributions, mercurial should be used.

    33 There is a nice, complete and step-by-step tutorial in section 'C'.
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