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From: Per Wigren <wigren@××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposition for stage3.
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:42:13
Message-Id: 200206181841.41009.wigren@home.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposition for stage3. by Bart Verwilst
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5 Tuesday 18 June 2002 18.22 skrev Bart Verwilst:
6 > On Tuesday 18 June 2002 17:52, Dan Naumov wrote:
7 > || Hello.
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9 > Hi!
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11 > || I just thought I'd share an idea I had about stage3. I think it would be
12 > || nice if it was usable for systems older then i686 and if it used -O1 or
13 > || -O2 instead of -O3. The reasons are simple:
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15 > || The majority of the people who actually want to use stage3 do so because
16 > || of the time it takes to build the ENTIRE system from scratch. This
17 > || mainly applies to old PC's, which are obviously older then i686. I've
18 > || seen quite a few people on #gentoo complain that it is a major pain in
19 > || the ass to install Gentoo on an old system.
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21 > Gentoo 1.3a is already available for both i586 and i686, and i think 1.3b
22 > will be available for even more archs.. not 100% sure which ones though..
23 > Maybe i486, for the very low-end gateways out there :o) Others are k6,
24 > athlon, ...
25 >
26 > || As for -O1 / -O2 instead of the default -O3, it's just that some people
27 > || want to be "safe". I've had all kinds of weirnesses and unexplainable
28 > || crashes due to software compiled with -O3 and no other optimisations.
29 > || These problems always went away after a recompile with -O2. And I am
30 > || pretty sure I am not the only one who thinks that way, because many
31 > || people I know got "burned" when utilising heavy opts.
32 >
33 > Well, i maintain the gentoo 1.3 series of tarballs, and i think -O3 is what
34 > most of the people who want to download the tarballs want. -O3 is stable
35 > for the base system as far as i know, and the majority wants -O3.. I think
36 > if you want other flags than the ones in the tarball, just use stage2, and
37 > recompile it yourself.. At least that's my opinion on things.. IMHO -O3
38 > isn't all that crazy for general use.

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