On 25/07/2023 10.32, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-07-25 at 08:26 +0200, Florian Schmaus wrote:
>> On 25/07/2023 06.50, Michał Górny wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2023-07-24 at 20:57 +0200, Florian Schmaus wrote:
>>>> Since --load-average may not be found in other Make implementations
>>>> besides GNU MAKE, it is potentially found in GNUMAKEFLAGS and not in
>>>> MAKEOPTS.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org>
>>>> ---
>>>>    eclass/multiprocessing.eclass | 6 +++---
>>>>    1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/eclass/multiprocessing.eclass b/eclass/multiprocessing.eclass
>>>> index e55be636a02c..6489ecbb44a6 100644
>>>> --- a/eclass/multiprocessing.eclass
>>>> +++ b/eclass/multiprocessing.eclass
>>>> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>>>> -# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
>>>> +# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
>>>>    # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
>>>>    
>>>>    # @ECLASS: multiprocessing.eclass
>>>> @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ makeopts_jobs() {
>>>>    # @FUNCTION: makeopts_loadavg
>>>>    # @USAGE: [${MAKEOPTS}] [${inf:-999}]
>>>>    # @DESCRIPTION:
>>>> -# Searches the arguments (defaults to ${MAKEOPTS}) and extracts the value set
>>>> +# Searches the arguments (defaults to ${MAKEOPTS} ${GNUMAKEFLAGS}) and extracts the value set
>>>>    # for load-average. For make and ninja based builds this will mean new jobs are
>>>>    # not only limited by the jobs-value, but also by the current load - which might
>>>>    # get excessive due to I/O and not just due to CPU load.
>>>> @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ makeopts_jobs() {
>>>>    # If no limit is specified or --load-average is used without a number, ${inf}
>>>>    # (defaults to 999) is returned.
>>>>    makeopts_loadavg() {
>>>> -	[[ $# -eq 0 ]] && set -- "${MAKEOPTS}"
>>>> +	[[ $# -eq 0 ]] && set -- "${MAKEOPTS} ${GNUMAKEFLAGS}"
>>>>    	# This assumes the first .* will be more greedy than the second .*
>>>>    	# since POSIX doesn't specify a non-greedy match (i.e. ".*?").
>>>>    	local lavg=$(echo " $* " | sed -r -n \
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure [GNU]MAKEFLAGS has incompatible format, in particular it
>>> makes hyphens optional.
>>
>> Yes, hyphens are optional in GNUMAKEFLAGS.
>>
>> However, makeopts_loadavg() would still be able to extract the
>> hyphen-prefixed short (-l) and long (--load-average) options from
>> GNUMAKEFLAGS. Hence having makeopts_loadavg() also inspect GNUMAKEFLAGS
>> seems like an improvement over the current situation.
>>
> 
> Also, shouldn't you handle MAKEFLAGS then as well?  If we're to support
> arbitrary variables used by build systems.

We could.

But GNUMAKEFLAGS was not arbitrary chosen. The idea is that portage may 
set --load-average via GNUMAKEFLAGS if the user did not set MAKEOPTS and 
GNUMAKEFLAGS.

See https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/1072

I first put --load-average into MAKEOPTS, but --load-average is not a 
portable make option, that is, some Make implementation do not support 
it. Adding it to GNUMAKEFLAGS, a variable already set by portage, we 
avoid passing this option to a make implementation that does not support it.

Hence, just adding GNUMAKEFLAGS is sufficient for the purpose of 
propagating portage's potential new default into multiprocessing.eclass 
& Co.

- Flow