[clue-tech] Gentoo

[Shawn Perry]

Did you recompile your toolchain when you changed your optimizations the
first time?  That can cause issues with OpenOffice.org.

Look in the forums for a script called emwrap.sh.  It helps administer your
system A LOT.

When I built a Gentoo system, I would install the base package, make most of
the changes to my /etc/make.conf, then run emwrap.sh -st followed by
emwrap.sh -s followed by emwrap.sh -w.  The first rebuilds the toolchain,
the second rebuilds system with the new tool chain but without rebuilding
the tool chain again, and the last does everything else.

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Jason Ash <wizardofki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dennis Perkins wrote:
> > Arch Linux ... You need to install X11, etc, yourself. There are guides
> to help you set everything up.
>
> Does Arch Linux automatically sort out the dependencies for X11 and
> KDE or Gnome and update them (guess I should look at the guides, too)?
>
> Jason Ash wrote:
> > So, I just got finished installing the Gentoo basesystem, and I'm
> installing the KDE4 meta-package ... 'm using -O2
> > and pentium4 optimizations
>
> Amazingly, it didn't install xorg-server as one of the dependencies
> for KDE4. So, I had to go back and do that before getting it to work
> ;-). Also, I think that the pentium4 and -j2 optimizations broke the
> openoffice (3.1.1) build because it failed to compile, so I'm retrying
> it with default i686 and j1 optimizations.
>
> Adam Bultman wrote:
> > I used gentoo for quite a while; while I didn't have the fastest system
> in the world, I couldn't really tell if it
> > was "faster" or not. [...] when using gentoo - you need to do etc-update
> any time you update a package, and etc-update
> > since if you make changes, you need to make sure that anything you
> changed gets put into the new version - and if you don't
> > be careful, you can quickly have yourself a non-booting machine, or at
> least a severely malfunctioning one. If you do any
> > benchmarking, and happen to have any benchmarks for when that box was
> another distro
>
> Portage told me to update configuration files, so since I hadn't
> changed the old ones, I just backed them up and renamed the new ones.
> Gentoo also has dispatch-conf to help with this. Waiting many hours
> for packages to build does seem like a major disadvantage. So far,
> just based on feel, it seems a little bit faster than kubuntu, but I
> haven't ran any benchmarks or anything. Can anyone recommend good
> benchmarks to try, please?
>
> Thanks for all of your feedback,
> Jason
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