[cmake-developers] build on multiple cores

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Tue Jan 27 11:02:09 EST 2015


On 1/27/2015 10:52 AM, Deepak Garg wrote:
> I want to build my cmake code with multiple cores (64). For this I am
> trying to test the build on 4 cores by typing
>
> make -j 4
>
> But still build is done by a single core. The time taken for build by
>
> make  and  make -j 4
>
> is same. Can anyone guide me that what am I doing wrong?
http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/434

However, if make and make -j4 are the same something is odd.  What 
platform/compiler?  What version of make?

-Bill



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