[gentoo-doc] Re: Toolchain guide?

[Marc Blumentritt]

Mike Frysinger schrieb:
> a lot of this cant really be called "toolchain" ... it's general *nix stuff:
> 	- basic build/compiler explanations
> 	- binaries vs scripts
> 	- shared vs static libraries
> 	- how to compile/link applications
> 	- general unix binaries
> -mike

if you describe it like this, than you are right, it is too much for
just a toolchain guide. I think, I overshot my goal here, but I thought
a guide/introduction/whatever about compiling packages would be cool for
Gentoo, because this is so important for Gentoo. Of course any
distributions compiles it packages, since otherwise they could
distribute binaries, but with Gentoo you do it yourself (with much help
from the devs, who provide you with portage). It just feels a little bit
like building your own Linux, so knowing about what actually happens
would be great. Looking around the net certainly provides you with
information, but if Gentoo would provide it, it would be nicer. But I
can understand it, that this kind of guide does not have much priority...


Anyway, I would like to have some information/instructions on the
toolchain. I know you said, that emerge handles it, period. But a major
gcc update broke my system, and I think this can happen again with an
major update of every toolchain package - as far as I understand this
topic. And this is MY main problem. I just do not understand it enough,
but I would like to. Perhaps a guide is too much for this, so I should
ask at the user-list or forums? On the other hand, there are already a
lot of posts, containing the big questions: How to rebuild properly your
complete system? I think some official answer to this with an
explanation would be really appreciated not only from me, but from a lot
of Gentoo user.

Regards,
Marc

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