Re: corrupt modversions.h built in 2.2.13

The Doctor What (docwhat@gerf.org)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:43:18 -0700

* 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.

Ciao!

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