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| author | Balakrishna Avulapati <bavulapati@gmail.com> | 2022-02-25 08:50:41 +0530 |
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| committer | Danielle Adams <adamzdanielle@gmail.com> | 2022-04-23 22:47:04 -0400 |
| commit | a70a1ce3a95dac0bf3261071265c6b93fbe87ee3 (patch) | |
| tree | 9089ff5428f5b0bd4ccc559afac2cbd3cb3234a9 | |
| parent | 978b50fe4490e0072c19a76a56402ca123d0bb5b (diff) | |
| download | node-new-a70a1ce3a95dac0bf3261071265c6b93fbe87ee3.tar.gz | |
doc: make building with ninja more discoverable
Building with ninja would speed up the build
We have the documenation about building with ninja,
but not easily discoverable.
And present this early to the contributors.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41840
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Darshan Sen <raisinten@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Mestery <mestery@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Filip Skokan <panva.ip@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <midawson@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | BUILDING.md | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/contributing/pull-requests.md | 4 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/BUILDING.md b/BUILDING.md index 54cdb1b007..d6ca30104b 100644 --- a/BUILDING.md +++ b/BUILDING.md @@ -273,6 +273,10 @@ $ ./configure $ make -j4 ``` +We can speed up the builds by using [Ninja](https://ninja-build.org/). For more +information, see +[Building Node.js with Ninja](doc/contributing/building-node-with-ninja.md). + The `-j4` option will cause `make` to run 4 simultaneous compilation jobs which may reduce build time. For more information, see the [GNU Make Documentation](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Parallel.html). diff --git a/doc/contributing/pull-requests.md b/doc/contributing/pull-requests.md index 00868c4bfc..bc0d072484 100644 --- a/doc/contributing/pull-requests.md +++ b/doc/contributing/pull-requests.md @@ -244,6 +244,10 @@ test suite. To run the tests (including code linting) on Unix / macOS: ./configure && make -j4 test ``` +We can speed up the builds by using [Ninja](https://ninja-build.org/). For more +information, see +[Building Node.js with Ninja](building-node-with-ninja.md). + And on Windows: ```text |