[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH 8/8] kernel-build.eclass: use pbzip2/lbzip2 for parallel compression if available

[Sam James]

> On 11 Oct 2022, at 23:55, Sam James <sam@g.o> wrote:
>
> Note that this will only take effect if compressing
> modules with bzip2 (COMPRESS_MODULE_BZIP2 is set) or
> compressing the kernel with bzip2 (CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2 is set).
>
> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@g.o>
> ---
> eclass/kernel-build.eclass | 10 ++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/eclass/kernel-build.eclass b/eclass/kernel-build.eclass
> index faf36d763d08..cc99298811bc 100644
> --- a/eclass/kernel-build.eclass
> +++ b/eclass/kernel-build.eclass
> @@ -98,13 +98,19 @@ kernel-build_src_configure() {
>        export ZSTD_NBTHREADS="$(makeopts_jobs)"
>    fi
>
> -    # pigz needs to take an argument, not an env var,
> -    # for its options, which won't work because of how the kernel build system
> +    # pigz/pbzip2/lbzip2 all need to take an argument, not an env var,
> +    # for their options, which won't work because of how the kernel build system
>    # uses the variables (e.g. passes directly to tar as an executable).
>    if type -P pigz ; then
>        MAKEARGS+=( KGZIP="pigz" )
>    fi
>
> +    if type -P pbzip2 ; then

Oh, all of these need a redirection to silence them, which I'll fix locally.