Re: [Qemu-discuss] A few bugs and updating QEMU

[Mike Lovell]

On 06/14/2012 12:36 PM, Jake Thomas wrote:
> I was just compiling what I got from:
>
> git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git
>
> I did just a plain "./configure".
>
>
> How did you know to do the "-j8" option with make? Maybe that's the secret. 
> I'll have to try that.

-j is the amount of individual compilation tasks to performance at a 
time. in other words, the amount of parallelism to use during the build. 
i used 8 since i have a machine with 8 'cores.'

i've done essentially what you've described and i've had success in the 
past.

mike