[oe] make explosion while building attr

[Cliff Brake]

For the record, this is caused by setting the TOPDIR env variable
manually, and white listing TOPDIR for bitbake.  I modified the
recipes to clear this variable:

http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=b9788810a898534c6bf417c84b1babeff07ea508
http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=531a874848130d8a746d2337f62ed2358f43f086

It would be really nice to be able to rename TOPDIR in bitbake to
something like BB_TOPDIR, so we don't run into this problem.  Perhaps
it is not necessary to whitelist TOPDIR to get BB to use it -- guess I
need to try that as well.

Thanks,
Cliff


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Cliff Brake <cliff.brake at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone seen anything like this:
>
> http://bec-systems.com/oe/attr_make_explosion.txt
>
> setup:
> org.openembedded.dev
> beagleboard machine
> 64-bit Ubuntu workstation
> PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 4"
> BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "4"
>
> It runs my workstation out of memory and is downright annoying!
>
> Thanks,
> Cliff
>