Building Linux kernel... Taking so long!

[ResidentBiscuit]

This is the largest thing I've built before and good god is it taking awhile.

[1yR4jE8b]

Takes 10 minutes on my machine. If you want long compile times, try compiling Boost or Qt.

[rapidcoder]

If you want really long compiling times, try compiling KDE. Now it is probably faster, but KDE 3.x series took two days to compile.

[ResidentBiscuit]

It took me about an hour and a half to compile 3.6.7 on my Intel i5 quad core 2.8 GHz. Two days just sounds ridiculous haha

[z05DSL3A]

Bad Back in the day it would take half an hour plus just to run through the configuration of Linux then four or five hours to compile (100Mhz 386)

[ResidentBiscuit]

I would imagine if I actually went through the config and didn't take all the default answers, that would have taken me a good while to finish

[chrisname]

Did you use gconfig? You should use gconfig, it's much easier.

[ResidentBiscuit]

Nah I just used oldconfig. First time doing this and it seemed like oldconfig would be the simplest

[chrisname]

gconfig has a GTK GUI, it's a lot easier to use.

[ResidentBiscuit]

I'll keep that in mind, I need to do this one more time on a different machine.