<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 13:25, Thomas Witkowski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.witkowski@tu-dresden.de">thomas.witkowski@tu-dresden.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Is there a way to run ./configure with multiple cores? On my systems it takes up to three hours to run this script. So around 80% of the time is spend in compiling third party packages. Is it possible to run at least this compilation with multiple cores, so to provide something like "-j8" to them?</blockquote>
</div><br><div>Not currently. The most common reason for slow configure is a slow network-mounted disk. You can configure on a scratch disk (set symlinks from where you want to put it). With petsc-dev, you can run multiple configures concurrently (for different PETSC_ARCH).</div>