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On 02/04/2013 19:51, Davide Carnovale wrote: |
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> Hi all gentoo people! |
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> I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of |
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> reinstalling it today. |
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> While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is |
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> available. As far as I remember, gentoo was best known, back in the |
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> days, for being fast, as it was one of the first distro to support |
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> i686... am i wrong with this? if not, why only i486 today? |
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> apart from the reasons behind the decision of shipping only an i486 |
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> stage 3, do you think it's worth the pain to recompile everything |
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> (like the old stage1) for a different arch? i have an intel i5 |
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> processor. |
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You have been gone a while :-) |
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These days we don't do the whole stage 1/2/3 thing while rebuilding the |
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whole lot multiple times. |
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Nowadays we just unpack a suitable stage 3 into a chroot, tweak CFLAGS, |
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"emerge -e world", then emerge all the packages you use. |
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The stage3 tarballs are normally quite out of date so you will rebuild |
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the whole lot anyway asap. If your workstation is also your buildhost, |
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the bests start for CFLAGS with a reasonably recent gcc is |
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CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" |
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and CHOST, as always, is something you should not be touching at all. |
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IOW, as long as you start with the desired ABI (32 vs 64 bit) your first |
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update is going to optimize and fix things anyway. So don't wprry about it. |
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Oh, and "gentoo is fast" is a nono swear word these days. That's ricing |
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:-) Nowadays we say the benefit of gentoo is USE so you get what *you* |
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want :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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