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diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL index 8415b1893ff..49e58474325 100644 --- a/nt/INSTALL +++ b/nt/INSTALL @@ -43,7 +43,18 @@ gmake (If you are building from CVS, say "make bootstrap" or "nmake - bootstrap" instead and avoid using Cygwin make.) + bootstrap" instead, and avoid using Cygwin make.) + + With GNU Make, you can use the -j command-line option to have + Make execute several commands at once, like this: + + gmake -j 4 XMFLAGS="-j 3" + + The XMFLAGS variable overrides the default behavior of GNU Make + on Windows, whereby recursive Make invocations reset the maximum + number of simultaneous commands to 1. The above command allows + up to 4 simultaneous commands at once in the top-level Make, and + up to 3 in each one of the recursive Make's. 4. Generate the Info manuals (only if you are building out of CVS, and if you have makeinfo.exe installed): @@ -252,6 +263,18 @@ The warnings may be fixed in the main FSF source at some point, but until then we will just live with them. + With GNU Make, you can use the -j command-line option to have Make + execute several commands at once, like this: + + gmake -j 4 XMFLAGS="-j 3" + + The XMFLAGS variable overrides the default behavior of GNU Make on + Windows, whereby recursive Make invocations reset the maximum number + of simultaneous commands to 1. The above command allows up to 4 + simultaneous commands at once in the top-level Make, and up to 3 in + each one of the recursive Make's; you can use other numbers of jobs, + if you wish. + If you are building from CVS, the following commands will produce the Info manuals (which are not part of the CVS repository): |