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@@ -61,13 +61,17 @@ Build instructions:
(Note: do_cmake.sh now defaults to creating a debug build of ceph that can
be up to 5x slower with some workloads. Please pass
-"-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo" to do_cmake.sh to create a non-debug
+"-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo" to do_cmake.sh to create a non-debug
release.)
+(Note: `make` alone will use only one CPU thread, this could take a while. use
+the `-j` option to use more threads. Something like `make -j$(nproc)` would be
+a good start.
+
This assumes you make your build dir a subdirectory of the ceph.git
-checkout. If you put it elsewhere, just replace `..` in do_cmake.sh with a
-correct path to the checkout. Any additional CMake args can be specified
-setting ARGS before invoking do_cmake. See [cmake options](#cmake-options)
+checkout. If you put it elsewhere, just point `CEPH_GIT_DIR`to the correct
+path to the checkout. Any additional CMake args can be specified setting ARGS
+before invoking do_cmake. See [cmake options](#cmake-options)
for more details. Eg.
ARGS="-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc-7" ./do_cmake.sh