Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:43:18 -0700 | From | The Doctor What <> | Subject | Re: corrupt modversions.h built in 2.2.13 |
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* Ron Flory (ron.flory@adtran.com) [991022 09:42]: > Under 2.0.3x, 'make -j25' really hauled ass (just over a minute). > 2.2.x seems to have restructured the makefiles so the kernel build > process leaves most of my CPU's idle, and seems to take forever. When > compiling, any time the 'percent-idle' is not 0, is wasted time.
This is because none of the subdirectories are parallelized. Try:
make MAKE="make -j25" zlilo
Otherwise, the MAKE variable is overridden and the -j flag isn't passed down the tree.
This also, I think, keeps modversions from being hosed, if you leave the -j off the top make. I think.
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