>This has surely been asked before, but searching turned up nothing. > >Is there a recommended way to resume an interrupted system build? I run on >very old and slow machines. I haven't completed a full system build yet, >but on my main system (Intel Celeron single core 2GB RAM from 2003) 8 hours >didn't get me very far. A fresh kernel build takes about 90 minutes on that >machine. > >"make build" does a complete clean of the build tree from what I can tell >by looking at the Makefile. It would be nice to pick up where I left off in >case a power failure or my own stupidity interrupts a build.
If you are well-studied and aware of how the build system works, sure there are ways to hand-play. Then you wouldn't need to ask.. If you aren't aware of how it works, then no. Restart it.
