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RE: S-L-O-W Compilation
Nir Soffer said:
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Aviram Jenik wrote:
> The first three seem to take the longest, each one takes quite a few
> hours.
> Any ideas? I'm using a 486DX (25MHZ I think) with 8MB RAM and ~1GB HD.
> My swap partition is over 100MB, and it's active.
>
> What can I check?
Compiling a kernel is not like compiling some chicken shit program.
Compiling a kernel takes a loooong time. It took several hours on my
486sx, too, I can tell you that.
[Omer Zak] Even then 18 hours is way too long. On my 386DX-33 (with 8MB RAM), kernel compilation (version 1.2.13, if it matters) took about 1.5 hours.
Maybe you could try to remove some of the kernel options, you may be
compiling too big a kernel for your own good.
[Omer Zak] Or this may be a specific RH5.0 problem. Look for makefile options, which cause files to be rebuilt again and again needlessly (for example, because of the way timestamps are compared).
--- Omer