Kernel 2.6.9 issues...

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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Jerry McBride wrote:
>
> 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

Why are you doing 'make bzImage'?  That sort of thing died with the 2.4.x
kernel.  You're supposed to do:
make [menu|x|old|...]config
make
make modules_install

that's it.

> 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?

I've got 2.6.9 built and running fine on a FC2 laptop.  What distro are
you using, and which version of the stuff in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes are you running?

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