[petsc-dev] could we let "make -j N" work for PETSc and external packages?

[Jed Brown]

Fande Kong <Fande.Kong at inl.gov> writes:

> Hi Developers,
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> Could we somehow let "make -j N" to take multiple threads for compiling PETSc. Do we use multiple threads when compiling the external packages such as hypre, parmetis etc.?

Yes, see self.parallelMake=0 for the few packages that don't support parallel make.