<p>
In case you have a multi-processor machine, you can call `make
- PAR=-j4 target-name' to let make call multiple instances of the
+ PAR=-j4 target-name' to let `make' call multiple instances of the
compiler (in this case four). Since the make files are written in
a way to minimize cross-dependencies, this speeds up compilation
by about the factor given after `-j', at least if you have as many
processors. If you have GNU make 3.78 or higher, it is simpler to
- directly call `make -j4 target-name'.
+ directly call `make -j4 target-name'. Note, however, that
+ parallel makes will sometimes fail when compiling the library for
+ the first time (this is due to a bug in `make'); in that case,
+ simply re-run `make', or run it without `-jN'.
<p>
</p>
</ul>
+ <p>
+ Apart from the libraries, you should generate the full set of
+ documentation files, by typing `make online-doc'. This way, you
+ have (almost) all the documentation locally on your computer and
+ need not use the <acronym>deal.II</acronym> homepage in
+ Heidelberg. You can access all documentation through <a
+ href="documentation.html" target="body">this page</a>. (For
+ obvious reasons, the only document that you don't have locally is
+ the News page, and the pages that convert the CVS logs into
+ HTML. Access them through the <a
+ href="http://gaia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/~deal"
+ target="_top">global homepage</a>.)
+ </p>
+
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<h3>Configuration options</h3>