From b495423a22c07ef0737bc084bccba143e6c97ece Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:23:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] build: increase file descriptor count limit for the build,
 some systems (e.g. Mac OS X default to 256, which is too little for some
 parallel builds)

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>

SVN-Revision: 34023
---
 include/toplevel.mk | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/toplevel.mk b/include/toplevel.mk
index f44dc81557f..19ed8cb1d9d 100644
--- a/include/toplevel.mk
+++ b/include/toplevel.mk
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ export SCAN_COOKIE
 
 SUBMAKE:=umask 022; $(SUBMAKE)
 
+ULIMIT_FIX=_limit=`ulimit -n`; [ "$$_limit" = "unlimited" -o "$$_limit" -ge 1024 ] || ulimit -n 1024;
+
 prepare-mk: FORCE ;
 
 prepare-tmpinfo: FORCE
@@ -149,7 +151,7 @@ prereq:: prepare-tmpinfo .config
 			echo "WARNING: your configuration is out of sync. Please run make menuconfig, oldconfig or defconfig!"; \
 		fi \
 	)
-	@+$(SUBMAKE) -r $@
+	@+$(ULIMIT_FIX) $(SUBMAKE) -r $@
 
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