[CLUE-Tech] Gentoo build questions

[Collins Richey]

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 09:34:13 -0700, Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:

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> Ahh, further investigation last night showed what was going on...
> automake-wrapper and autoconf-wrapper (to get the "slots" you mention)
> simply hadn't been emerge'd yet.  They need to move those higher in the
> food chain for dependencies and all will be well.  coreutils and
> libtools don't like not having the version of automake they desire!
> 

I haven't done a gentool install in about a year, but my guess is that
all of this is at the right place in the food chain if you stick to
the install instructions (no ~x86 at bootstrap time). Also, it's
possible that you have encountered a bug in the latest LiveCD. At the
time I installed, for example, I had to drop back one LiveCD level,
because there was a bug in getting NICs to work. More so than any
other software on gentoo, the LiveCD seems to be approved for release
before it is really stable.

> 
> You can't do it during the bootstrap because the gcc version is still
> too old, but after gcc is rebuilt, '-march=c3' works great.
> 

Good to know. At least you are using -march instead of -mcpu, since
that has been known to cause problems (with earlier gcc releases at
least).

Just to reiterate. The Stage1 tarball is designed with only one
purpose in mind: To provide an "extremely minimal" execution
environment for running a bootstrap to produce an intermediate level
environment that can in turn produce a current, non-gui linux system.
If you step outside the capabilities of any phase, YMMV, oops YMWV.

Welcome to the light side <grin>.

-- 
 Collins