Makefile: update comment about top-level parallel Makefile

After the latest patches top-level parallel Makefile is working but
there is still an issue when a package has an unspecified optional
dependency so change the comment to explain that.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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Fabio Porcedda 2014-02-14 10:55:08 +01:00 committed by Peter Korsgaard
parent 069b33a30e
commit 2afb23a702

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@ -42,7 +42,20 @@ export HOSTARCH := $(shell uname -m | \
-e s/macppc/powerpc/\
-e s/sh.*/sh/)
# This top-level Makefile can *not* be executed in parallel
# Parallel execution of this Makefile is disabled because it changes
# the packages building order, that can be a problem for two reasons:
# - If a package has an unspecified optional dependency and that
# dependency is present when the package is built, it is used,
# otherwise it isn't (but compilation happily proceeds) so the end
# result will differ if the order is swapped due to parallel
# building.
# - Also changing the building order can be a problem if two packages
# manipulate the same file in the target directory.
#
# Taking into account the above considerations, if you still want to execute
# this top-level Makefile in parallel comment the ".NOTPARALLEL" line and
# build using the following command:
# make BR2_JLEVEL= -j$((`getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN`+1))
.NOTPARALLEL:
# absolute path