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diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index b05aa99b4e7..6f2b0e6dd36 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2003-06-20 Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu> + Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> + + * doc/install.texi (Building): Correct and improve statement + about parallel builds. + 2003-06-20 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> * c-common.c: Change _Bool to bool reverting part of the last diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi index f870161b39c..83ebbb1c468 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi @@ -1318,12 +1318,13 @@ Note that if an error occurs in any step the make process will exit. @section Building in parallel -If you have a multiprocessor system you can use @samp{make bootstrap -MAKE="make -j 2" -j 2} or just @samp{make -j 2 bootstrap} -for GNU Make 3.79 and above instead of just @samp{make bootstrap} -when building GCC@. You can use a bigger number instead of two if -you like. In most cases, it won't help to use a number bigger than -the number of processors in your machine. +You can use @samp{make bootstrap MAKE="make -j 2" -j 2}, or just +@samp{make -j 2 bootstrap} for GNU Make 3.79 and above, instead of +@samp{make bootstrap} to build GCC in parallel. +You can also specify a bigger number, and in most cases using a value +greater than the number of processors in your machine will result in +fewer and shorter I/O latency hits, thus improving overall throughput; +this is especially true for slow drives and network filesystems. @section Building the Ada compiler |
