[parisc-linux] kernel compilation time

[Ivar Orskaug]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Randolph Chung wrote:

> > just installed a fresh Debian on a C3000/8500. I did a kernel
> > recompile and after 15 minutes binutils terminated compilation,
> > complaining about too long arguments.  However, is this normal compilation
> > time? I know this is not an acurate metric, but gives an idea. I
> > just did an make oldconfig and then rebuilt the kernel. What is the normal
> > kernel compilation time on these machines?
> > The running kernel was 2.4.21.
>
> do you have latest binutils installed? it shouldn't terminate. can you
> please post your config and binutils/gcc version? ~10-15 minutes sounds
> reasonable for a c3k, but depends on amount of memory, speed of disk,
> etc...

	OK, running binutils 2.14.90.0.7-3, gcc 3.3.2

	output from make:

	real2.S:126: Error: too many positional arguments
	make[1]: *** [real2.o] Error 1
	make[1]: Leaving directory
	`/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.21/arch/parisc/kernel'
	make: *** [_dir_arch/parisc/kernel] Error 2

	line 126 in
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.21/arch/parisc/kernel/real2.S:

	 126          load32  PA(save_cr_space + (N_SAVED_REGS * REG_SZ)), %r26
>
> randolph
>