On Friday 20 April 2007 10:35:10 Måns Rullgård wrote: > Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Andi Kleen wrote: > >> Rationale: > >> - It cannot be enabled in normal builds because all current lds > >> become very slow when they have to handle thousands of sections. > >> > > > > afaik this is only ever reported on SuSE; I've not heard it on any > > other distro... > > Even with that option set, the full kernel build with my configuration > finishes in one minute flat on my Gentoo box. Could it be that the > linker uses enormous amounts of memory? I have 4GB so I wouldn't > immediately notice.
What binutils version do you use? Maybe that particular problem is finally fixed. Of course would still leave the other issues I listed. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
