Re: Making LilyPond quickly

[Charles Winston]

Thanks for the help! The -j option is what I need.

Charles

> On Jun 27, 2017, at 11:31 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Charles Winston <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Hi developers,
>> 
>> So far for my chords project, I’ve only been editing Scheme files, so
>> I haven’t needed to build lilypond at all to test. Now I’m working on
>> C++ files, so I need to compile in order to test my changes. It’s
>> frustrating that compiling takes such a long time. I’m just using the
>> “make” command, so I’m making all. I feel like there must be a way to
>> compile only the specific things I changed. How would I do that?
> 
> make
> 
> If you have a dual-processor machine, something like
> 
> CPU_COUNT=3 make -j3
> 
> might be faster.  If you think that's slow, try
> 
> make doc
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup
> 
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