bodaciousFern

Force uninstalled glibc on my Gentoo, which basically broke every shell and binary on the system. Was able to repair in place because I

1. Had already compiled busybox statically
2. Still had a copy of the stage 3 tarball on / which I could use to 'restore' glibc libraries

Ah, the ol' switcharoo

50 minutes seems way too long - I run Gentoo on a 2nd gen i5 and my kernel compile is always under 20 minutes.

You are using make -j4 or make -j(number of CPU cores) for parallel compile, right?