qt5webengine: propagate parallel flag to ninja

WebEngine is a big project to build. It uses ninja which is a build
system that does everything in parallel[1].

	Builds are always run in parallel, based by default on the number of
	CPUs your system has. Underspecified build dependencies will result in
	incorrect builds.

QtWebEngine does not propagate the parallel flag from the running
instance of make to ninja. Thus, all the machine cores are used to build
this single project.

	make -j 10 -> ninja -j # all cores

This behavior disrupts powerful machines which are setup to build many
projects in parallel. Even worse, the build fails on machines where the
ratio CPU-cores / amount of RAM (including swap) is not appropriate. g++
may have not enough of memory to build all those files in parallel.

Unfortunatly, the target `run_ninja' is hardcoded in the Makefile
src/core/Makefile.run_gn; there is no way to propagate flags using a
variable through the make command-line.

	run_ninja:
	        /home/gportay/src/buildroot/output-qt5.11/build/qt5webengine-5.11.1/src/3rdparty/ninja/ninja
-C /home/gportay/src/buildroot/output-qt5.11/build/qt5webengine-5.11.1/src/core/release QtWebEngineCore

Luckily, the Qt gn_run.pro[2] can hardcode ninja extra flags through the
variable NINJAFLAGS when the Makefile is generated (which is performed
during the build and not during configure step).

This commit sets the NINJAFLAGS using the variable PARALLEL_JOBS to limit
the number of cores used by ninja.

Fixes:
	virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory

[1]: https://ninja-build.org/manual.html#_comparison_to_make
[2]: https://github.com/qt/qtwebengine/blob/v5.11.1/src/core/gn_run.pro#L49-L53

CC: Damien Riegel <damien.riegel@savoirfairelinux.com>
CC: Jean-François Têtu <jean-francois.tetu@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Gaël PORTAY <gael.portay@savoirfairelinux.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>

diff --git a/package/qt5/qt5webengine/qt5webengine.mk b/package/qt5/qt5webengine/qt5webengine.mk
index e527e6bc36013c5e7be5ab14ceaffa1ad380b130..986ed0ec79fe19dfe01d4222394ba2327ed595fa 100644 (file)
--- a/package/qt5/qt5webengine/qt5webengine.mk
+++ b/package/qt5/qt5webengine/qt5webengine.mk
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ define QT5WEBENGINE_PYTHON2_SYMLINK
 endef
 QT5WEBENGINE_PRE_CONFIGURE_HOOKS += QT5WEBENGINE_PYTHON2_SYMLINK
 
+QT5WEBENGINE_ENV += NINJAFLAGS="-j$(PARALLEL_JOBS)"
+
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_QT5_VERSION_LATEST),y)
 define QT5WEBENGINE_CREATE_HOST_PKG_CONFIG
        sed s%@HOST_DIR@%$(HOST_DIR)%g $(QT5WEBENGINE_PKGDIR)/host-pkg-config.in > $(@D)/host-bin/host-pkg-config