In Chapter 6, both Libtool and Autoconf mention that the "make check" commands take a lot of time (and they do). Since these use Autotest, they don't respect the -j flag to make (which LFS builders may have set as the MAKEFLAGS variable from the note in section 4.5); however, they *do* respect the TESTSUITEFLAGS variable. For example:
make check TESTSUITEFLAGS='-j4' This helps a great deal; on my VM (quad-core), setting the variable to -j6 (6 is based on trial and error while watching load averages) results in the following time difference: Libtool: from 16m48s to 6m0s Autoconf: from 10m24s to 2m27s Would that be worth mentioning somewhere in the book, or is it too much messing around for builders to worry about? Thanks. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
