Commit 3d04491
doc: add note to parallelize make
Adds a note to the BUILDING doc to encourage parallelizing make. When I
first built node I didn't know this trick and thought that the build was
just stuck in an infinite loop after waiting for 10 minutes.
Refs: #8286
Refs: #9881
PR-URL: #9961
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Stephen Belanger <admin@stephenbelanger.com>1 parent a8547bb commit 3d04491
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@@ -40,9 +40,17 @@ To build Node.js: | |||
| 40 | 40 | ||
| 41 | 41 | ```console | |
| 42 | 42 | $ ./configure | |
| 43 | - $ make | ||
| 43 | + $ make -j4 | ||
| 44 | 44 | ``` | |
| 45 | 45 | ||
| 46 | + Running `make` with the `-j4` flag will cause it to run 4 compilation jobs | ||
| 47 | + concurrently which may significantly reduce build time. The number after `-j` | ||
| 48 | + can be changed to best suit the number of processor cores on your machine. If | ||
| 49 | + you run into problems running `make` with concurrency, try running it without | ||
| 50 | + the `-j4` flag. See the | ||
| 51 | + [GNU Make Documentation](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Parallel.html) | ||
| 52 | + for more information. | ||
| 53 | + | ||
| 46 | 54 | Note that the above requires that `python` resolve to Python 2.6 or 2.7 and not a newer version. | |
| 47 | 55 | ||
| 48 | 56 | To run the tests: | |
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