Re: Announce: Kernel Build for 2.5, Release 2.0 is available

[Andi Kleen]

Keith Owens <[e-mail]> writes:

> On a smaller config (full config takes too long when single threaded).
> 
> kbuild 2.4:
> 	make oldconfig dep bzImage modules	6:25
> 	make bzImage modules (no changes)	0:22
> 
> kbuild 2.5:
> 	make oldconfig installable		4:45
> 	make installable (no changes)		0:16

Hmm, can you explain the two minutes of difference ? Is the old build 
that inefficient? 

-Andi