[PATCH] parallelize bootstrap

[Rempel, Cynthia]

>________________________________________
>From: gedare at gwmail.gwu.edu [gedare at gwmail.gwu.edu] on behalf of Gedare Bloom [gedare at rtems.org]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 11:05 AM
>To: Rempel, Cynthia
>Cc: rtems-devel at rtems.org
>Subject: Re: [PATCH] parallelize bootstrap
>
>Hi,
>
>Would it be better to add an option to specify the maximum number of
>parallel jobs to run? Also, is it 10 jobs or 20 jobs maximum right
>now? I think there can be up to 10 controlled by n_confs, and up to 10
>controlled by n_reconfs?

It might be better to make it configurable... maybe someone would want it to be just 1?  I could add a wait after each for loop to limit it to 10 instead of 10 each...
Thanks for the review! I'll make the change and resubmit :) 

>
>-Gedare
>
>On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Rempel, Cynthia
><cynt6007 at vandals.uidaho.edu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Applying this patch changes the for loops using autoconf into parallel for loops calling autoconf.
>> It reduced the time to run bootstrap from ~9:30 to ~2:45
>> It's limited to 10 sub shells working in parallel though...
>> I only checked that hello.exe and ticker.exe ran on sparc-rtems4.11-gdb...
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Cindy