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Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel



On 2010-07-25 05:22 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

> Curt Howland put forth on 7/24/2010 8:49 PM:
>
>> Not compiling often (as you can tell), I note that the compile is 
>> using only one cpu of 4 at a time. I'm sure there is a parallel 
>> compilation tweak somewhere.
>
> Setting CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=4 in your user environment should fix this, at
> least, it used to.

This only works if you use kernel-package to build the kernel.  The
generic way is to use "make -j4".

> If you regularly do your kernel work while logged on as root, you'd need to
> append it to /root/.bashrc or /root/.profile

There is no need to ever build the kernel as root.

Sven


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