Did you recompile your toolchain when you changed your optimizations the first time? That can cause issues with OpenOffice.org.<br><br>Look in the forums for a script called emwrap.sh. It helps administer your system A LOT.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Jason Ash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wizardofki@gmail.com">wizardofki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Dennis Perkins wrote:<br>
> Arch Linux ... You need to install X11, etc, yourself. There are guides to help you set everything up.<br>
<br>
Does Arch Linux automatically sort out the dependencies for X11 and<br>
KDE or Gnome and update them (guess I should look at the guides, too)?<br>
<br>
</div>Jason Ash wrote:<br>
> So, I just got finished installing the Gentoo basesystem, and I'm installing the KDE4 meta-package ... 'm using -O2<br>
> and pentium4 optimizations<br>
<br>
Amazingly, it didn't install xorg-server as one of the dependencies<br>
for KDE4. So, I had to go back and do that before getting it to work<br>
;-). Also, I think that the pentium4 and -j2 optimizations broke the<br>
openoffice (3.1.1) build because it failed to compile, so I'm retrying<br>
it with default i686 and j1 optimizations.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
Adam Bultman wrote:<br>
> 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<br>
</div>> was "faster" or not. [...] when using gentoo - you need to do etc-update any time you update a package, and etc-update<br>
<div class="im">> 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<br>
> be careful, you can quickly have yourself a non-booting machine, or at least a severely malfunctioning one. If you do any<br>
> benchmarking, and happen to have any benchmarks for when that box was another distro<br>
<br>
</div>Portage told me to update configuration files, so since I hadn't<br>
changed the old ones, I just backed them up and renamed the new ones.<br>
Gentoo also has dispatch-conf to help with this. Waiting many hours<br>
for packages to build does seem like a major disadvantage. So far,<br>
just based on feel, it seems a little bit faster than kubuntu, but I<br>
haven't ran any benchmarks or anything. Can anyone recommend good<br>
benchmarks to try, please?<br>
<br>
Thanks for all of your feedback,<br>
<font color="#888888">Jason<br>
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