Looking more closely at what is happening, I notice that when I do a "make -j 3" the make stops with the following error message: make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../libgimpthumb/libgimpthumb-2.0.la', needed by `gimp-thumbnail-list'. Stop. If I then do a "make", followed by a Control-c in say 5 seconds, followed by a "make -j 3" the build will complete successfully yielding a working program. This seems to be repeatable. The total build time is approximately halved and both cpu's are pegged most of the time. Thanks for the suggestion to use "-j 3". _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer