[Slackbuilds-users] A non-programmers question...

[insomniactoo at localnet.com]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:02:11 +0200
"V'yacheslav Stetskevych" <slava18 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:51 PM, <insomniactoo at localnet.com> wrote:
> 
> >   What it is, is the use of -j<n>, and it has something to do with using
> > more than
> >   one processor during ./configure of an app/program or something, making
> > it
> >   build(?) faster.
> >
> 
> export MAKEFLAGS="-j4" # where 4 is the number of cpu cores
> stick this ^ into an executable file in /etc/profile.d/
> and you get parellelized make
> but some software breaks when you do this, so if anything fails to build,
> MAKEFLAGS="" ./some.SlackBuild
> have fun :-)
> - Vyacheslav
> 

  Aha! So it *can* be of some benefit! Great! Thank you and Willy for this
  information and letting me know how it works.


-- 
FTG FTI FTP

Registered Linux user #214117 at http://linuxcounter.net