Hi,

> The problem was some of the shell things that were called went wrong,
> imparticular mkdep used to not work.

mkdep is executed by "make", but - according to "top" - it is really
cc1plus that is hanging!

> Try the auto-building kernels?

What I meant was, that I have to keep up with the changes of the
sources to get an up-to-date kernel - and I am *so* lazy... ;)

> hmm, have you done a make depend (if needed?)

make depend shouldn't make any difference because usually it only
changes the dependencies in the Makefile, i.e. "object x has to be
recompiled if file y has changed".

> How's the hard-disc doing? does it need an fsck on some files, this can
> cause some problems...)

No problems - I could even start X while compiling!

Bye,
Jochen

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