Re: Optimising Octave compilation time

[Thomas Weber]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 01:28:42PM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> So you really compile all of the Octave sources in 2 minutes,
> Campbell? Wow. Maybe that's why I'm the only one who complains about
> having to regularly recompile Octave when someone decides that we need
> to have two spaces instead of one after every full stop. I've kinda
> solved this problem with ccache, which does tend to cut down my
> compilation times.
> 
> 2011/2/18 Richard Campbell <address@hidden>:
> > I've never encountered race conditions with make - that would be a
> > problem with make, though, not the Octave sources, right?
> 
> I don't know. I've never tried with Octave, but I have seen it
> elsewhere. 

I've seen it in the past with Octave, mostly when building the
documentation. I think John fixed it though (then again, I have no
longer access to a machine where 'make -j8' makes sense).

        Thomas