Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Ken <ken69267@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] gcc64 use flag
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:16:12
Message-Id: 4697BF42.7010206@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] gcc64 use flag by Mark Knecht
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4 Mark Knecht wrote:
5 > Hi all,
6 > This morning I was looking at doing some updates and noticed the
7 > gcc64 use flag on linex-headers. Although this is an AMD64 machine
8 > I've not been using this flag and am wondering if I should be? What
9 > exactly does it do?
10 >
11 > [ebuild U ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.21 [2.6.17-r2]
12 > USE="(-gcc64%)" 4,287 kB
13 >
14 >
15 > lightning ~ # emerge -pv =sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.17-r2
16 >
17 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
18 >
19 > Calculating dependencies... done!
20 > [ebuild R ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.17-r2 USE="(-gcc64)" 0 kB
21 >
22 > Thanks,
23 > Mark
24
25 The flag seems to be disabled so it seems you shouldn't be using it. I
26 am not sure what it exactly does, but the Gentoo use flag page says "Use
27 64-bit kernel compiler" for gcc64. I'd assume since it's unchangeable at
28 this point it doesn't matter anymore.
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31 Kenneth Prugh - Ken69267
32 Gentoo AMD64 Arch Tester
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