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Sergei Trofimovich
238d634e4b ocaml: enable parallel building
Enable parallel building for ocaml-4.08 and above. tested as:

    $ nix build -f. ocaml-ng.ocamlPackages_{4_{00_1,01_0,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10,11,12,13},latest}.ocaml --keep-going

ocaml build system supports parallel building, but but for multiple
top-level targets at the same time as it usually spawns subprocess
$(MAKE) that occasionally conflict with one another. To work it around
we use tiny Makefile with a single rule that calls top-level targets
sequentially as makefile calls:

    nixpkgs_world_bootstrap_world_opt:
       $(MAKE) world
       $(MAKE) bootstrap
       $(MAKE) world.opt

On a 16-core machine ocaml-4.12 build speeds up from 6m55s to 1m35s.

Releases 4_00_1, 4_01_0, 4_04 and 4_05 still have some race in them.
Thus this change enables parallel builds only for ocaml-4.06 and above.

Adapted from #142723

upstreams's CI tests the parallel makefile: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/issues/10235#issuecomment-782100584
The limit was chosen to be 4.08 because it was released in 2019, not too
long before the above link.
2022-02-27 12:00:00 +00:00