* [edk2-platforms PATCH 1/1] Readme.md: update outdated info about building BaseTools in parallel
@ 2021-11-28 2:31 Rebecca Cran
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From: Rebecca Cran @ 2021-11-28 2:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: devel, Leif Lindholm, Michael D Kinney; +Cc: Rebecca Cran
edk2 commit 9e1131b70b4b6002cd1904401946ef0b22cf7d33 fixed the
dependencies in the BaseTools GNUMakefile to allow the build to be
run with multiple threads.
Update Readme.md to provide an example of building with "-j4".
Signed-off-by: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com>
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Readme.md | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md
index 62876b4b7d75..cd0db9bfcb2c 100644
--- a/Readme.md
+++ b/Readme.md
@@ -115,11 +115,10 @@ target-specific binutils. These are included with any prepackaged GCC toolchain
(This step _depends_ on **WORKSPACE** being set as per above.)
1. Build BaseTools
- `make -C edk2/BaseTools`
+ `make -j4 -C edk2/BaseTools`
- (BaseTools can currently not be built in parallel, so do not specify any `-j`
- option, either on the command line or in a **MAKEFLAGS** environment
- variable.)
+`-j4` runs the build with 4 threads. You may change it to specify an
+appropriate value for the number of available threads.
### Build options
There are a number of options that can (or must) be specified at the point of
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