Commit 27a3e494 by Daniel Egger Committed by Gerald Pfeifer

install.texi (Building): Correct and improve statement about parallel builds.

	* doc/install.texi (Building): Correct and improve statement
	about parallel builds.

Co-Authored-By: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>

From-SVN: r68257
parent a742c759
2003-06-20 Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>
Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
* doc/install.texi (Building): Correct and improve statement
about parallel builds.
2003-06-20 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> 2003-06-20 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
* c-common.c: Change _Bool to bool reverting part of the last * c-common.c: Change _Bool to bool reverting part of the last
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...@@ -1318,12 +1318,13 @@ Note that if an error occurs in any step the make process will exit. ...@@ -1318,12 +1318,13 @@ Note that if an error occurs in any step the make process will exit.
@section Building in parallel @section Building in parallel
If you have a multiprocessor system you can use @samp{make bootstrap You can use @samp{make bootstrap MAKE="make -j 2" -j 2}, or just
MAKE="make -j 2" -j 2} or just @samp{make -j 2 bootstrap} @samp{make -j 2 bootstrap} for GNU Make 3.79 and above, instead of
for GNU Make 3.79 and above instead of just @samp{make bootstrap} @samp{make bootstrap} to build GCC in parallel.
when building GCC@. You can use a bigger number instead of two if You can also specify a bigger number, and in most cases using a value
you like. In most cases, it won't help to use a number bigger than greater than the number of processors in your machine will result in
the number of processors in your machine. fewer and shorter I/O latency hits, thus improving overall throughput;
this is especially true for slow drives and network filesystems.
@section Building the Ada compiler @section Building the Ada compiler
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