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DOC: Suggest -j N if more than one CPU available
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slivingston committed Oct 8, 2015
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$ make all
$ make check

Consider using `make -j N` where N is the number of jobs to run simultaneously.
The last command runs a test suite. Each testing step is reported if the
environment variable VERBOSE is set to 1. E.g., try `VERBOSE=1 make check`.
Finally,
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[flex](http://flex.sourceforge.net/) are required to build gr1c. Other Yacc and
lex compatible tools may suffice, but this has not been tested.

If the machine on which you are building has more than one CPU, then building
time may be reduced by running more than one Make job simultaneously. To do
this, use the switch `-j N` in `make` commands in these instructions, where `N`
is the number of jobs. E.g., if there are 8 CPUs available, `make -j 8 all`.


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