Re: [Gretl-users] Downloading, building and installing -gretl- 1.10.2 on Kubuntu Linux 15.04
On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Clive Nicholas wrote:
* again, parallel is good; you can cut down build time dramatically
by
giving the "-j" option to make, as in, for example "make -j2", or
"make -j4"
*Which -make -j*- option would you recommend?*
Well, it depends on how manu cores your PC has. The syntax -jn means "try
to split the workload between n cpus"; clearly, there's little point in
setting n greater than the number of cores you have, but then, sometimes
if n is too high, make can get a little confused. On a 4-core system, -j3
is usually ok, and it does make the build three times faster.
*No problem, you're welcome. Now here's a tip for you: why
not incorporate
all of these steps into the next version of the User Guide? That way, all
newcomers have a clear point-by-point 'guide within a guide' to work with.
:)*
Myself, I'd rather not. This kind of information, IMO, is much too
"volatile" (at least, at this level of detail) to be set in stone in the
User's Guide; little things may change from one version to another. And
besides, who needs the User's Guide to buld gretl on Linux when there's an
excellent step-by-step tutorial on YouTube already? ;)
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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