Re: [gentoo-server] server advice

[Thomas T. Veldhouse]

Ben Munat wrote:
> Hello. I just set up my first gentoo system at home and I like it so
> much that I rented a rack space with gentoo preinstalled (just a
> stage3 from the liveCD) . I want to go ahead and start installing
> stuff but thought I should seek advice from the experts first.
>
> What would folks recommend for USE flag settings for a web server? I'm
> figuring on at least -kde, -gnome, but  beyond that I'm kind of
> confused. Do I need to do "-<flag>" for all the flags that I won't use
> (alsa and other audio stuff, all X stuff, cups and any other printing
> stuff, etc.)? If you're running a webserver and could share your USE
> flags with me, that would be much appreciated.
>
> I'm also figuring on setting the CFLAGS to a conservative setting,
> like CFLAGS="-02  -march=pentium4 -pipe". Anything else I should
> include for a server?
>
> Any and all thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> Ben

Emerge "ufed" and use that program to set your USE flags.

Also, I like these settings for my CFLAGS:

CFLAGS="-Os -pipe -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fmemoize-lookups -fsave-memoized"

The CXXFLAGS variable doesn't play well with KDE and Qt because of its
preprocess work with moc (it just produces lots of warnings complaining that
the additional directives are only valid for C++ ... which Qt is ...).