Why clone and build twice? What I do is
mkdir steem1 steem2
git clone https://github.com/steemit/steem.git src
cd src && git submodule update --init --recursive
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .
make -j4 steemd
cp programs/steemd/steemd ../steem1/
cp programs/steemd/steemd ../steem2/
This should save some build time.
RE: Building a high availability steemd node for web apis