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Re: Any pointers to speed up the build

 

It can take a lot longer on my machine, where it sometimes takes over
40 min after changing some header files which is included in a lot of
other files. It is normal for compiling to take over 15min.
I use Debian on a W3570.

Am So., 11. Juli 2021 um 12:35 Uhr schrieb Pradeepa Senanayake
<pradeepa.kck@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Hello Team,
>
> I don't know whether this is normal, but even for a small change, the application takes ~ 15 mins to build.
>
> $ time make -j 5 install
> ...
> ...
> real    14m51.815s
> user    0m8.017s
> sys     0m15.641s
>
> The most time is spent in the linking process. (Following steps)
>
> [ 98%] Linking CXX shared module _pcbnew.kiface
> [ 98%] Built target pcbnew_kiface
> [ 98%] Creating python's pcbnew native module _pcbnew.pyd for command line use.
> [ 98%] Built target pcbnew
> [ 98%] Linking CXX executable qa_pcbnew_tools.exe
> [ 98%] Linking CXX executable qa_pcbnew.exe
> [ 98%] Built target pcbnew_python_module
> [ 98%] Built target qa_pcbnew_tools
> [100%] Built target qa_pcbnew
>
> Is there a way to speed this up?
>
> Thanks!
> Best Regards,
> Pradeepa Senanayake.
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