Kernel 2.6.9 issues...

[Jerry McBride]

On Sunday 24 October 2004 03:07 pm, 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
> 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 been digging into this a bit...

If I do "make -j 1 bzImage", make will run amuck as described above in my 
original post. However, if I create an alias "alias make="make -j 1" then all 
runs normally.... 

What the!

Somewhere in the makefiles, there's a make statement with a dangling "-j" 
switch and I'll be darned if I can find it. It's really, really odd that it's 
only this one box! It's little brother (laptop) has no problems compiling a 
2.6.9 kernel... basicly the same hardware and identical software...



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