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airspirit · 09-03-2003, 08:53 AM

No packages from the web are precompiled. That's the benefit: everything is tailored to your system the way you want it. I'm running i686 && -O2 -march=athlon-xp -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -ffast-math -mfpmath=sse -pipe right now with use flags (software bindings) only for the things I'm going to use.

The sound issue was solved. I have alsa working ... the NVidia drivers are shit and that is what gave me problems.

I found out why Moz wouldn't compile (and the binary install could cause other programs in a gentoo environment to go nuts because of USE dependencies): I somehow managed to bootstrap my last install as an i686 in the HOST line and flagged it as a pentium. I fixed the error after the bootstrap, but that probably irreversably damaged the compiler and libraries. I've started from scratch, and now that those are compiled with mad optimizations, my compile times are dropping through the floor ... I can crunch a kernel in less than a minute, hehe.

edit: emerge ati-drivers && emerge xfree used to take around six hours from scratch on my old misoptimized compiler ... I just finished it in two on a properly configured one. This is the benefit of a roll-your-own linux distro.

09-03-2003, 08:53 AM	#19
airspirit Been /.'d... have you? Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Moscow, ID Posts: 1,986	No packages from the web are precompiled. That's the benefit: everything is tailored to your system the way you want it. I'm running i686 && -O2 -march=athlon-xp -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -ffast-math -mfpmath=sse -pipe right now with use flags (software bindings) only for the things I'm going to use. The sound issue was solved. I have alsa working ... the NVidia drivers are shit and that is what gave me problems. I found out why Moz wouldn't compile (and the binary install could cause other programs in a gentoo environment to go nuts because of USE dependencies): I somehow managed to bootstrap my last install as an i686 in the HOST line and flagged it as a pentium. I fixed the error after the bootstrap, but that probably irreversably damaged the compiler and libraries. I've started from scratch, and now that those are compiled with mad optimizations, my compile times are dropping through the floor ... I can crunch a kernel in less than a minute, hehe. edit: emerge ati-drivers && emerge xfree used to take around six hours from scratch on my old misoptimized compiler ... I just finished it in two on a properly configured one. This is the benefit of a roll-your-own linux distro. __________________ #!/bin/sh {who;} {last;} {pause;} {grep;} {touch;} {unzip;} mount /dev/girl -t {wet;} {fsck;} {fsck;} {fsck;} {fsck;} echo yes yes yes {yes;} umount {/dev/girl;zip;} rm -rf {wet.spot;} {sleep;} finger: permission denied Last edited by airspirit; 09-03-2003 at 10:23 AM.