diff --git a/config/functions b/config/functions
index 5597f3ddde..a1c08e890d 100644
--- a/config/functions
+++ b/config/functions
@@ -254,12 +254,12 @@ setup_toolchain() {
   fi
 
   # parallel
-  if ! flag_enabled "parallel" "yes"; then
-    NINJA_OPTS="$NINJA_OPTS -j1"
-    export MAKEFLAGS="-j1"
-  else
+  if flag_enabled "parallel" "yes"; then
     NINJA_OPTS="$NINJA_OPTS -j$CONCURRENCY_MAKE_LEVEL"
     export MAKEFLAGS="-j$CONCURRENCY_MAKE_LEVEL"
+  else
+    NINJA_OPTS="$NINJA_OPTS -j1"
+    export MAKEFLAGS="-j1"
   fi
 
   # verbose flag
@@ -1264,7 +1264,7 @@ pkg_lock() {
 
   local pkg="$1" task="$2" parent_pkg="$3"
   local this_job="${MTJOBID}"
-  local lock_job lock_seq lock_task lock_pkg locked=no
+  local lock_job lock_seq lock_task lock_pkg locked=no idwidth
   local fail_seq
 
   exec 98>"${THREAD_CONTROL}/locks/${pkg}.${task}"
@@ -1275,7 +1275,8 @@ pkg_lock() {
   done
 
   if [ "${locked}" = "no" -a "${lock_job}/${lock_seq}" != "${this_job}/${PARALLEL_SEQ}" ]; then
-    pkg_lock_status "STALLED" "${parent_pkg}" "${task}" "$(printf "waiting on [%02d] %s %s" ${lock_job} "${lock_task}" "${lock_pkg}")"
+    [ "${THREADCOUNT}" = "0" ] && idwidth=${#MTMAXJOBS} || idwidth=2
+    pkg_lock_status "STALLED" "${parent_pkg}" "${task}" "$(printf "waiting on [%0*d] %s %s" ${idwidth} ${lock_job} "${lock_task}" "${lock_pkg}")"
     flock --exclusive 98
   fi
 
@@ -1303,13 +1304,15 @@ pkg_lock_status() {
   [ "${MTWITHLOCKS}" != "yes" ] && return 0
 
   local status="$1" pkg="$2" task="$3" msg="$4"
-  local this_job="${MTJOBID}" line
+  local this_job="${MTJOBID}" line idwidth
+
+  [ "${THREADCOUNT}" = "0" ] && idwidth=${#MTMAXJOBS} || idwidth=2
 
   (
     flock --exclusive 94
 
-    printf -v line "%s: <%06d> [%02d/%0*d] %-7s %-7s %-35s" \
-    "$(date +%Y-%m-%d\ %H:%M:%S.%N)" $$ ${this_job} ${#MTMAXJOBS} ${PARALLEL_SEQ:-0} "${status}" "${task}" "${pkg}"
+    printf -v line "%s: <%06d> [%0*d/%0*d] %-7s %-7s %-35s" \
+      "$(date +%Y-%m-%d\ %H:%M:%S.%N)" $$ ${idwidth} ${this_job} ${#MTMAXJOBS} ${PARALLEL_SEQ:-0} "${status}" "${task}" "${pkg}"
     [ -n "${msg}" ] && line+=" (${msg})"
 
     echo "${line}" >>"${THREAD_CONTROL}/history"
@@ -1335,10 +1338,12 @@ update_dashboard() {
 
   local status="$1" pkg="$2" task="$3" msg="$4"
   local line sedline preamble num elapsed projdevarch
-  local boldred boldgreen boldyellow endcolor
+  local boldred boldgreen boldyellow endcolor idwidth
 
   sedline=$((MTJOBID + 2))
 
+  [ "${THREADCOUNT}" = "0" ] && idwidth=${#MTMAXJOBS} || idwidth=2
+
   num=$(< "${THREAD_CONTROL}/status.max")
   if [ ${num} -lt ${sedline} ]; then
     echo ${sedline} >"${THREAD_CONTROL}/status.max"
@@ -1370,7 +1375,7 @@ update_dashboard() {
     esac
   fi
 
-  printf -v line "[%02d\/%0*d] %b%-7s%b %-7s %-35s" ${MTJOBID} ${#MTMAXJOBS} ${PARALLEL_SEQ:-0} "${color}" "${status//\//\\/}" "${endcolor}" "${task}" "${pkg}"
+  printf -v line "[%0*d\/%0*d] %b%-7s%b %-7s %-35s" ${idwidth} ${MTJOBID} ${#MTMAXJOBS} ${PARALLEL_SEQ:-0} "${color}" "${status//\//\\/}" "${endcolor}" "${task}" "${pkg}"
   [ -n "${msg}" ] && line+=" ${msg//\//\\/}"
 
   sed -e "1s/.*/${preamble}/;${sedline}s/.*/${line}/" -i "${THREAD_CONTROL}/status"
@@ -1383,7 +1388,7 @@ acquire_exclusive_lock() {
 
   local pkg="$1" task="$2" lockfile="${3:-global}"
   local this_job="${MTJOBID}"
-  local lock_job lock_seq lock_task lock_pkg locked=no
+  local lock_job lock_seq lock_task lock_pkg locked=no idwidth
 
   exec 96>"${THREAD_CONTROL}/locks/.mutex.${lockfile}"
   while [ : ]; do
@@ -1393,7 +1398,8 @@ acquire_exclusive_lock() {
   done
 
   if [ "${locked}" = "no" -a "${lock_job}/${lock_seq}" != "${this_job}/${PARALLEL_SEQ}" ]; then
-    pkg_lock_status "MUTEX/W" "${pkg}" "${task}" "$(printf "mutex: %s; waiting on [%02d] %s %s" "${lockfile}" ${lock_job} "${lock_task}" "${lock_pkg}")"
+    [ "${THREADCOUNT}" = "0" ] && idwidth=${#MTMAXJOBS} || idwidth=2
+    pkg_lock_status "MUTEX/W" "${pkg}" "${task}" "$(printf "mutex: %s; waiting on [%0*d] %s %s" "${lockfile}" ${idwidth} ${lock_job} "${lock_task}" "${lock_pkg}")"
     flock --exclusive 96
   fi
 
diff --git a/config/multithread b/config/multithread
index 18b24f959d..ca30caf7a6 100644
--- a/config/multithread
+++ b/config/multithread
@@ -147,15 +147,16 @@ start_multithread_build() {
   echo 0 >"${THREAD_CONTROL}/status.max"
   touch "${THREAD_CONTROL}/status"
 
-  [ "${THREADCOUNT}" = "0" ] && THREADCOUNT=1
+  # Increase file descriptors if building one thread/package
+  [ "${THREADCOUNT}" = "0" ] && ulimit -n ${ULIMITN:-10240}
 
   # Bootstrap GNU parallel
   MTWITHLOCKS=no $SCRIPTS/build parallel:host 2>&1 || die "Unable to bootstrap parallel package"
 
-  # if number of detected slots is 1 then don't bother using inter-process locks as this is a sequential build
+  # determine number of available slots for the given THREADCOUNT - optimise logging for single threaded builds
   [ $(seq 1 32 | ${TOOLCHAIN}/bin/parallel --plain --no-notice --max-procs ${THREADCOUNT} echo {%} | sort -n | tail -1) -eq 1 ] && singlethread=yes || singlethread=no
 
-  # create a single log file by default if not using locks (single build process), or the builder is a masochist
+  # create a single log file by default for a single threaded build (or the builder is a masochist)
   if [ "${singlethread}" = "yes" -a "${ONELOG,,}" != "no" ] || [ "${ONELOG,,}" = "yes" ]; then
     buildopts+=" --ungroup"
   else
@@ -174,6 +175,8 @@ start_multithread_build() {
     ${SCRIPTS}/genbuildplan.py --no-reorder --show-wants --build ${@} > "${THREAD_CONTROL}"/plan || result=1
 
   if [ ${result} -eq 0 ]; then
+    save_build_config
+
     cat "${THREAD_CONTROL}"/plan | awk '{print $1 " " $2}' | \
       MTBUILDSTART=$(date +%s) MTWITHLOCKS=yes ${TOOLCHAIN}/bin/parallel \
         --plain --no-notice --max-procs ${THREADCOUNT} --joblog="${THREAD_CONTROL}/joblog" --plus ${buildopts} \
diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/icu/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/icu/package.mk
index 12bdef5227..a356b4ad01 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/icu/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/icu/package.mk
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ PKG_SHA256="d007f89ae8a2543a53525c74359b65b36412fa84b3349f1400be6dcf409fafef"
 PKG_LICENSE="Custom"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.icu-project.org"
 PKG_URL="http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/${PKG_VERSION}/icu4c-${PKG_VERSION//./_}-src.tgz"
+PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="gcc:host"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain icu:host"
 PKG_LONGDESC="International Components for Unicode library."
 
diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/shared-mime-info/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/shared-mime-info/package.mk
index 427b3da243..1ce6801959 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/shared-mime-info/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/chrome-depends/shared-mime-info/package.mk
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ PKG_SHA256="5c0133ec4e228e41bdf52f726d271a2d821499c2ab97afd3aa3d6cf43efcdc83"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL2"
 PKG_SITE="https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info/"
 PKG_URL="http://freedesktop.org/~hadess/shared-mime-info-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain libxml2"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain glib libxml2"
 PKG_LONGDESC="The shared-mime-info package contains the core database of common types."
 PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="-parallel"
 
diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/libzip/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/libzip/package.mk
index 026805e4a1..587fbaacd0 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/libzip/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/libzip/package.mk
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 # Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+# Copyright (C) 2019-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="libzip"
 PKG_VERSION="0.11.2"
@@ -7,7 +8,7 @@ PKG_SHA256="7cfbbc2c540e154b933b6e9ec781e2671086bd8114eb744ae1a1ade34d2bb6bb"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.nih.at/libzip/"
 PKG_URL="http://www.nih.at/libzip/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain zlib"
 PKG_LONGDESC="A C library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives."
 PKG_TOOLCHAIN="configure"
 
diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/multimedia-tools-depends/opencaster/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/multimedia-tools-depends/opencaster/package.mk
index 67ad14ecf0..5deff8ae96 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/multimedia-tools-depends/opencaster/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/multimedia-tools-depends/opencaster/package.mk
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ PKG_SHA256="c9d77f98b31d53f521e3179003a9cb66b0586704717e9d401f3bc0dafa243865"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.avalpa.com/the-key-values/15-free-software/33-opencaster"
 PKG_URL="http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/opencaster/opencaster_${PKG_VERSION}+dfsg.orig.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain zlib"
 PKG_LONGDESC="A free and open source MPEG2 transport stream data generator and packet manipulator."
 
 pre_configure_target() {
diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/multimedia-tools-depends/tsdecrypt/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/multimedia-tools-depends/tsdecrypt/package.mk
index 842d8fca9e..9181ebafa5 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/multimedia-tools-depends/tsdecrypt/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/multimedia-tools-depends/tsdecrypt/package.mk
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 # Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+# Copyright (C) 2019-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="tsdecrypt"
 PKG_VERSION="10.0"
@@ -7,7 +8,7 @@ PKG_SHA256="a337a7d60cc8f78b9dffbd7d675390497763bcb8f878ec9f1bec3eb80f32b1f1"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://georgi.unixsol.org/programs/tsdecrypt"
 PKG_URL="http://georgi.unixsol.org/programs/tsdecrypt/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.bz2"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain libdvbcsa"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain libdvbcsa openssl"
 PKG_LONGDESC="A tool that reads incoming mpeg transport stream over UDP/RTP and then decrypts it using libdvbcsa/ffdecsa."
 
 make_target() {
diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/rsyslog-depends/liblognorm/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/rsyslog-depends/liblognorm/package.mk
index c4fcbff46c..7bc44bd2a6 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/rsyslog-depends/liblognorm/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/rsyslog-depends/liblognorm/package.mk
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ PKG_SHA256="dd779b6992de37995555e1d54caf0716a694765efc65480eed2c713105ab46fe"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.liblognorm.com"
 PKG_URL="https://github.com/rsyslog/liblognorm/archive/v$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain libestr"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain libestr libfastjson"
 PKG_TOOLCHAIN="autotools"
 PKG_LONGDESC="A fast samples-based log normalization library."
 
diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/depends/efivar/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/depends/efivar/package.mk
index e98a69a833..9dfc879c6f 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/depends/efivar/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/depends/efivar/package.mk
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ PKG_ARCH="x86_64"
 PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
 PKG_SITE="https://github.com/rhboot/efivar"
 PKG_URL="https://github.com/rhboot/efivar/archive/$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
+PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="gcc:host"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain efivar:host"
 PKG_LONGDESC="Tools and library to manipulate EFI variables."
 
diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/file/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/file/package.mk
index d94e2ce301..67c67276d7 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/file/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/file/package.mk
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ PKG_SHA256="acc16f878576ad0bb29bbb7c724e29d2827f14ddb39fe94d76c3a859d4a3d0d9"
 PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.darwinsys.com/file/"
 PKG_URL="https://github.com/file/file/archive/${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="ccache:host"
+PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="toolchain"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain file:host zlib"
 PKG_LONGDESC="The file utility is used to determine the types of various files."
 PKG_TOOLCHAIN="autotools"
diff --git a/packages/devel/glib/package.mk b/packages/devel/glib/package.mk
index d557cb1b31..26043f9edd 100644
--- a/packages/devel/glib/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/glib/package.mk
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PKG_SHA256="f8d827955f0d8e197ff5c2105dd6ac4f6b63d15cd021eb1de66534c92a762161"
 PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.gtk.org/"
 PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/${PKG_VERSION%.*}/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="libffi:host Python3:host"
+PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="libffi:host Python3:host meson:host"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain pcre zlib libffi Python3:host util-linux"
 PKG_LONGDESC="A library which includes support routines for C such as lists, trees, hashes, memory allocation."
 PKG_TOOLCHAIN="meson"
diff --git a/packages/emulation/libretro-fsuae/package.mk b/packages/emulation/libretro-fsuae/package.mk
index 484b25368b..861b18412f 100644
--- a/packages/emulation/libretro-fsuae/package.mk
+++ b/packages/emulation/libretro-fsuae/package.mk
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PKG_ARCH="x86_64"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPLv3"
 PKG_SITE="https://github.com/libretro/libretro-fsuae"
 PKG_URL="https://github.com/libretro/libretro-fsuae/archive/$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain libmpeg2 openal-soft"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain glib libmpeg2 openal-soft"
 PKG_LONGDESC="FS-UAE amiga emulator."
 PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="-lto"
 PKG_TOOLCHAIN="autotools"
diff --git a/packages/emulation/libretro-uae4arm/package.mk b/packages/emulation/libretro-uae4arm/package.mk
index 6666c36f05..28394b7e6a 100644
--- a/packages/emulation/libretro-uae4arm/package.mk
+++ b/packages/emulation/libretro-uae4arm/package.mk
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PKG_ARCH="arm"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="https://github.com/libretro/uae4arm-libretro"
 PKG_URL="https://github.com/libretro/uae4arm-libretro/archive/$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain zlib"
 PKG_LONGDESC="UAE4ARM amiga emulator."
 
 PKG_LIBNAME="uae4arm_libretro.so"
diff --git a/packages/graphics/glew/package.mk b/packages/graphics/glew/package.mk
index 31d5a68a03..d40b937958 100644
--- a/packages/graphics/glew/package.mk
+++ b/packages/graphics/glew/package.mk
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PKG_SHA256="04de91e7e6763039bc11940095cd9c7f880baba82196a7765f727ac05a993c95"
 PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
 PKG_SITE="http://glew.sourceforge.net/"
 PKG_URL="$SOURCEFORGE_SRC/glew/glew/$PKG_VERSION/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tgz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain libX11"
 PKG_LONGDESC="A cross-platform C/C++ extension loading library."
 
 make_target() {
diff --git a/scripts/get_archive b/scripts/get_archive
index 85ec6c545f..58f85dd006 100755
--- a/scripts/get_archive
+++ b/scripts/get_archive
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ while [ ${NBWGET} -gt 0 ]; do
 done
 
 if [ ${NBWGET} -eq 0 ]; then
-  die "\nCant't get ${1} sources : ${PKG_URL}\nTry later!"
+  die "\nCannot get ${1} sources : ${PKG_URL}\nTry later!"
 else
   build_msg "CLR_INFO" "INFO" "Calculated checksum: ${CALC_SHA256}"
   echo "${PKG_URL}" > "${STAMP_URL}"
diff --git a/scripts/image b/scripts/image
index d80d042ed9..f2a8740100 100755
--- a/scripts/image
+++ b/scripts/image
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ if [ "${BOOTLOADER}" = "u-boot" -a -n "${DEVICE}" ]; then
 fi
 
 show_config
-save_build_config
 
 ${SCRIPTS}/checkdeps
 
diff --git a/tools/dashboard b/tools/dashboard
index 825b00d9ed..b4af0df6e7 100755
--- a/tools/dashboard
+++ b/tools/dashboard
@@ -36,7 +36,11 @@ while [ : ]; do
     sleep 1.0
   done
 
-  tail -Fn+0 --pid=${pid} "${tcdir}/status" 2>/dev/null
+  if [ "${THREADCOUNT}" = "0" ]; then
+    tail -Fn+0 --pid=${pid} "${tcdir}/status" 2>/dev/null | grep -vE "STALLED|IDLE"
+  else
+    tail -Fn+0 --pid=${pid} "${tcdir}/status" 2>/dev/null
+  fi
 
   echo
 done