DAYS?? 
yow, that's slow!! 
With local disks (RD54's for example) it should maybe take 6-8 hours, 
if you have a lot of memory, im speaking from an example with 13 MB. 

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Brian D Chase wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Phlatlyn wrote:
> 
> > How long does it take to compile a 1.4.1 kernel on a MVII
> 
> This is highly dependent on the amount of RAM present in your system, and
> the particular install setup you have (diskless, or local disk install).
true. I've never done it with anything but local disks, so with NFS it 
might take this long. 
> 
> Now... all variables aside, I'd guess it would take on the order of 1-3
> days for the kernel to compile on a MicroVAX II. I've not done it in a
> while on such a machine, but it takes a certain amount of patience.

if you have a sparc handy, you will be able to use anders hogrelius' 
cross-compiler and save yourself a lot of time. 

gcc is _Really_ slow, true, but i would think it would be less than a day!
how much memory do you have? 

happy hacking,
isildur