Kernel 2.6.9 issues...

[Jerry McBride]

Is anyone else here having problems compiling kernel 2.6.9 or later? 

I've got one box that will compile a 2.6.8 kernel perfectly... But when I 
through the 2.6.9 kernel sources at it... make bzImage runs crazy, creating 
hundreds, maybe even thousands of parallel processes until the box comes to a 
screaming slow down, very nearly dead... If I can catch it early and issue a 
ctrl-c I can kill off the parent make and then I can watch as hundreds of 
make processing finish.... It's crazy.

Reinstalling the main compile components (make, gcc, binutils, etc)  hasn't 
helped a bit. 

Under man make, it states that a "-j" on the make commandline will allow make 
to run an unlimited number of processes... grep-ing through the kernel 2.6.9 
scripts has not turned up a singe instance of the truncated -j command...

Anyone have a idea?



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