Jonathan Cottrill wrote:
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 you for the report. I will check that out.
-- Bruce
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