too long to build 2.6.14.2 kernel

[Andreas Orfanos <andreas.orfanos@gmail.com>]

Hi,


I hope I post this to the right list.


Last night I tried to build the latest version of Linux kernel 2.6.14-2, 

on my Debian 3.1. It took me around one hour to build.  I did the 

build on a system with a Pentium M at 2GHz. I tried also on another

machine (3GHz) and it was a few minutes quicker.


However, my last build on 2.6.x versions was one year ago 

was significantly faster. I was using SuSe 9.2 at that time.


My question is: Is this build time acceptable for the new kernels?

Is something wrong with the tool chain? Distribution?


The delay was not due to lots of new modules, it was clear that the

incremental list of compiled components on the screen was moving 

up slow. I remember kernel builds where ultra fast, couldn't watch on

screen what it was compiled.


Thanks
Andreas