SPAM: [Paraview] Can the process of buiding paraview be shortened?

[Lijun Xie]

 	My  machine has two Intel 2.4G CPUs, 1G memory, and I alway use make -j 3 to do the building job. But it's still take too much time. How long does it take you commonly to rebuild -- or just relink paraview?

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>I don't know about compiling on separate machines, but I've had some  
>luck on a single machine using GNU make. If your machine is multi- 
>processor, multi-core, hyper-threaded, or whatever, I recommend  
>trying "make -j n", where n is some number of simultaneous build tasks.
>
>This works, since ccmake creates Makefiles, and doesn't actually  
>handle the build process. It's even noted on the Wiki at:
>   http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Build_And_Install
>
>--Rick
>
>On Aug 18, 2006, at 7:31 PM, Lijun Xie wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I try to modify some code of paraview. However, the building time  
>> is too long. Each time after I modify some codes, I have to wait at  
>> least half an hour to see the effect. I have an 24 nodes linux  
>> cluster, so I think maybe it cab be accelerated by distributed and  
>> parallel compiling. However, I tried distcc and dmake, both failed  
>> when making paraview but successed on other common programs. I  
>> doubt CMake which paraview depends is a bit too complicated for  
>> these parallel compiling tools, is it?
>>
>>
>> 	
>> Daniel
>> 2006-08-19
>>
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Lijun Xie
CESC Lab, Zhejiang University
2006-08-19