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----- Original Message ----- |
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From: "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> |
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To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o> |
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Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 1:51 PM |
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Subject: [gentoo-amd64] gcc64 use flag |
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> Hi all, |
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> This morning I was looking at doing some updates and noticed the |
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> gcc64 use flag on linex-headers. Although this is an AMD64 machine |
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> I've not been using this flag and am wondering if I should be? What |
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> exactly does it do? |
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> [ebuild U ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.21 [2.6.17-r2] |
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> USE="(-gcc64%)" 4,287 kB |
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> lightning ~ # emerge -pv =sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.17-r2 |
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> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> [ebuild R ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.17-r2 USE="(-gcc64)" 0 kB |
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> Thanks, |
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> Mark |
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> gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list |
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An old friend said: |
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The USE flag is only effective on ppc64 and sparc where the kernel sometimes |
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is the only code that is compiled 64bit and therefore a seperate, much |
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smaller version of gcc is used to build the kernel. The flag should in fact |
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be masked everywhere except for those profiles, which is what bug 144535 [1] |
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deals with. |
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[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144535 |
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Kind Regards, |
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Simon Stelling |
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Gentoo/AMD64 Developer |
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