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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4 August 2011 03:25, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> (My machine compiles the entire Kicad source in 3 mins 30 seconds, on Ubuntu
>> x86_64, no wxWidgets, just Kicad.)
>
> $ make clean
>
> $ time make -j 5
>
> real    3m0.329s
>
> Looks more like 3 minutes flat.
>
> But I compile for a living.
>

Nice! On windows mingw32-make cannot run multiple jobs without
crashing so it is really limited; Annoying as I bought a quad core
processer with hyper threading for mingw32-make -j 7

D'oh!

I am passing -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release through to the KiCad build. I
expect it is still generating "debug" symbols though. I will have
another look tonight anyway and see what conclusions I can reach.

Brian.