On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:29 PM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 6 July 2010 19:39, Mike Hansen <mhan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Dr. David Kirkby >> <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >>> For both of us, the Sage library is taking a long time. For you, the longest >>> items is in fact Singular, which I think is good news, as Francois said >>> there are unnecessary targets being built. >>> >>> It would be good if we could make the library build in parallel, as when >>> that is building, my CPU usage is around 12%, which is not making much use >>> of the machine. >> >> The Sage library does build in parallel if you use "make -jX". >> >> --Mike > > IMHO, this is a bug. > > $ make -j X > > should work - see what 'make --help shows' > > drkir...@laptop:~$ make --help > Usage: make [options] [target] ... > Options: > <SNIP> > > -j [N], --jobs[=N] Allow N jobs at once; infinite jobs with no arg. > > In other words, the 'make --help' shows a space between the 'j' and > the 'N', so the Sage library should build in parallel with the space. >
Yes, this is a bug--we lazily pull the "-jN" out of the environment variable. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9488 - Robert -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
