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On Friday 05 March 2010 19:09:33 Tanstaafl wrote: |
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> Also - when you switch compilers, do you need to reboot right away |
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> (after rebuilding world (and thus the kernel)? |
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Rebuilding world doesn't rebuild the kernel by itself - it only installs |
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the sources and (if you have the symlink USE flag set) resets the |
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/usr/src/linux link to point to the new source tree. |
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So no, you don't have to reboot after rebuilding world. I would, myself, |
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but then mine are home machines, not production servers. |
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On the other hand, you may run into problems if you do much emerging |
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with usr/src/linux pointing to a kernel version other than the one |
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that's running. It depends on whether you have packages that include |
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their own kernel modules, like nvidia-drivers or virtualbox. |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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