On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 01:14:01 PM Michael Mol wrote: > On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 04:09:33 PM James wrote: > > Michael Mol <mikemol <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > But it's *great* to see you post to the list, again. I peruse your install > > script (github) on occasion to see if you have updated it, or 'ansiblize' > > [1] it. Great to hear from you, again. > > Heh. I haven't had need of that script in years. I only needed it then > because *something* was causing my system to crap its pants midway through > emerges, and rebuilding an entire Gentoo system to narrow down why > was...time- consuming. I currently have exactly one Gentoo install > going--my workstation. And it's been ongoing-stable for something like > three years, now. Good successtory. > For a while, I didn't have any Gentoo systems, as I > didn't have time to stand up a personal system to play with; I'd just > gotten married, bought a house, now have two kids Congratulations > named after programming > languages... Hope it's not C# and C++? ;) > As for that script, it turned out that having -gddb3 in CFLAGs breaks glibc. > Have a broken glibc get built, installed--and *nothing* that spawns > afterward can run. Hard to fix if you don't know why it's breaking. It was > a known bug, but not documented anywhere at the time. Thankfully, I notice > it's currently documented in the Gentoo Wiki... Good to know. I tend not to play around with CFLAGs much. -- Joost
