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authorAustin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>2013-03-29 14:47:42 -0500
committerAustin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>2013-03-29 14:47:42 -0500
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Make sure README.md mentions that make can build in parallel.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
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$ perl boot
$ ./configure
- $ make
+ $ make # can also say 'make -jX' for X number of jobs
$ make install
+(NB: **Do you have multiple cores? Be sure to tell that to `make`!** This can
+save you hours of build time depending on your system configuration, and is
+almost always a win regardless of how many cores you have. As a simple rule,
+you should have about N+1 jobs, where `N` is the amount of cores you have.)
+
The `perl boot` step is only necessary if this is a tree checked out
from git. For source distributions downloaded from [GHC's web site] [1],
this step has already been performed.