Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:17:56 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Are any special steps needed to handle this upgrade, other than using gcc-config to change the current selection? Do I need to follow the upgrade docs, such as remergeing system and world? I switched to gcc:4.4 a couple of months

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging alsa-utils-1.0.20-r4

2009-08-15 Thread Mick
On Friday 14 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 14 August 2009 22:23:14 Mick wrote: Obviously, the existence of /etc/modules.d/alsa does not allow emerge to continue. I think you must merge alsa file to alsa.conf and then delete alsa. Perhaps I'm too tired to understand the

Re: [gentoo-user] prelink Gentoo docs confusing

2009-08-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 18:27 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml is says: You do not need to set FEATURES=prelink in your make.conf file; Portage will automatically support prelink if it can find the prelink binary. Does that mean

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-15 Thread Moshe Kamensky
* Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk [14/08/09 22:21]: On 14 Aug 2009, at 21:26, Moshe Kamensky wrote: There was a thread with this subject a few months ago, which I have deleted LMGTHFY: http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf8oe=utf8q=Xorg%20dropping%20keyboard%20events

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-15 Thread Dale
Moshe Kamensky wrote: * Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk [14/08/09 22:21]: On 14 Aug 2009, at 21:26, Moshe Kamensky wrote: There was a thread with this subject a few months ago, which I have deleted LMGTHFY:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fast recursive local copy

2009-08-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 14 August 2009 22:47:46 schrieb Joerg Schilling: Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Freitag 14 August 2009 10:50:45 schrieb Joerg Schilling: Note that on Linux you may need to add -no-fsync because file I/O is slow on Linux. On Solaris, not using -no-fsync slows

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 August 2009 02:33:56 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: This being 4.3.4 to 4.1.1 looks like a major version change according to the upgrade guide. It doesn't mention what a switch manual takes, but it does list a whole series of steps such as remerging system and world without saying

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 15 August 2009 02:33:56 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: This being 4.3.4 to 4.1.1 looks like a major version change according to the upgrade guide.  It doesn't mention what a switch manual takes, but it does list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/15/2009 03:33 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: [...] This being 4.3.4 to 4.1.1 looks like a major version change according to the upgrade guide.  It doesn't mention what a switch manual takes, but it does list a whole

[gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/15/2009 07:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: [...] I agree with your description, but I disagree that the upgrade guide is actually very clear about this. It has us upgrade the compiler (OK), switch to the new compiler (OK), rebuild the libtool stuff (OK) then then states:

[gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/15/2009 07:48 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: [...] I am doing an emerge -e system and emerge -e world anyway though since I want to take advantage of the faster code 4.4 produces in general, but also more specific whether

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 15 August 2009 18:42:11 schrieb Mark Knecht: Code Listing 2.2: Rebuilding system # emerge -eav system # emerge -eav world I still wonder about this one. Doesn't world include system, so that the above would result in rebuilding a vast amount of packages twice? Bye...

[gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/15/2009 03:33 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: [...] This being 4.3.4 to 4.1.1 looks like a major version change according to the upgrade guide. It doesn't mention what a switch manual takes, but it does list a whole series of steps such as remerging system and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/15/2009 07:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: [...]    I agree with your description, but I disagree that the upgrade guide is actually very clear about this. It has us upgrade the compiler (OK), switch to the new compiler

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Dirk Heinrichsdirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Samstag 15 August 2009 18:42:11 schrieb Mark Knecht: Code Listing 2.2: Rebuilding system # emerge -eav system # emerge -eav world I still wonder about this one. Doesn't world include system, so that the above

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 August 2009 18:42:11 Mark Knecht wrote: Alan, I agree with your description, but I disagree that the upgrade guide is actually very clear about this. It has us upgrade the compiler (OK), switch to the new compiler (OK), rebuild the libtool stuff (OK) then then states:

[gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/15/2009 08:06 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag 15 August 2009 18:42:11 schrieb Mark Knecht: Code Listing 2.2: Rebuilding system # emerge -eav system # emerge -eav world I still wonder about this one. Doesn't world include system, so that the above would result in rebuilding a vast

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 August 2009 19:06:54 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag 15 August 2009 18:42:11 schrieb Mark Knecht: Code Listing 2.2: Rebuilding system # emerge -eav system # emerge -eav world I still wonder about this one. Doesn't world include system, so that the above would result in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 August 2009 19:18:36 Mark Knecht wrote: I've also done two builds of gcc instead of two @system builds. I think that accomplishes the same thing, but what do I know as there are no guarantees! ;-) Look at gcc's makefiles. It builds gcc with the old compiler then uses that new

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 15 August 2009 19:24:09 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: system has to be rebuilt twice. When you get a new toolchain (system), you need to rebuilt it with itself. The first time you do that, it is rebuilt using the *old* toolchain. The second time it is rebuilt using the *new*

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 15 August 2009 19:25:39 schrieb Alan McKinnon: A common misunderstanding is that you have to rebuild gcc twice. This is not true as gcc's own build system in fact builds gcc three times and does a binary diff between the last two, the build only proceeds if they are bit-for- bit

[gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/15/2009 08:07 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: [...] 1. FWIW, I found the following note: To use this code transformation, GCC has to be configured with --with-ppl and --with-cloog to enable the Graphite loop transformation infrastructure. on the following page:

[gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/15/2009 08:37 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag 15 August 2009 19:24:09 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: system has to be rebuilt twice. When you get a new toolchain (system), you need to rebuilt it with itself. The first time you do that, it is rebuilt using the *old* toolchain. The

[gentoo-user] netkit-rsh ./configure problem

2009-08-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
I can't get netkit-rsh (not that I want it but it's an (indirect) runtime dependency of xinit). This is a brand new machine that I'm building. Basically the error is: Checking for BSD signal semantics... no This package needs BSD signal semantics to run. sed: can't read

Re: [gentoo-user] netkit-rsh ./configure problem

2009-08-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
I should also mention that I also can't, for example, press CTRL-C at the shell prompt to exit a program (such as emerge). So somehow (some) signals are not being sent/received. -a

[gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: AFAIK, the mudflap pointer checker is just a command line GCC switch. You need to enable it explicitly using -fmudflap. ah o.k. I'm using the hardened overlay, and mudflap is a use flag defaulting to enabled. I'll post that second comment over in hardened.

[gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/15/2009 09:35 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: AFAIK, the mudflap pointer checker is just a command line GCC switch. You need to enable it explicitly using -fmudflap. ah o.k. I'm using the hardened overlay, and mudflap is a use flag defaulting to enabled. I'll

[gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 --- 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/15/2009 09:52 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] time bzip2 --best /dev/shm/500gb-test-file More like 500mb-test-file as I don't suppose you have a terrabyte of RAM :P

Re: [gentoo-user] netkit-rsh ./configure problem

2009-08-15 Thread Andrey Falko
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.orgwrote: I should also mention that I also can't, for example, press CTRL-C at the shell prompt to exit a program (such as emerge). So somehow (some) signals are not being sent/received. -a It looks like you

Re: [gentoo-user] netkit-rsh ./configure problem

2009-08-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 12:08 -0700, Andrey Falko wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: I should also mention that I also can't, for example, press CTRL-C at the shell prompt to exit a program (such as emerge). So

[gentoo-user] Re: netkit-rsh ./configure problem

2009-08-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/15/2009 10:22 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: Thanks for the suggestion but, unfortunately, no dice. For some reason I think this has something to do with the kernel or glibc (or some combo). I should mention also that I used (for the first time) the minimal snapshot (which I guess is the only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: netkit-rsh ./configure problem

2009-08-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 22:29 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/15/2009 10:22 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: Thanks for the suggestion but, unfortunately, no dice. For some reason I think this has something to do with the kernel or glibc (or some combo). I should mention also that I used

Re: [gentoo-user] netkit-rsh ./configure problem

2009-08-15 Thread pk
Albert Hopkins wrote: I can't get netkit-rsh (not that I want it but it's an (indirect) runtime dependency of xinit). This is a brand new machine that I'm building. Basically the error is: Checking for BSD signal semantics... no This package needs BSD signal semantics to

Re: [gentoo-user] netkit-rsh ./configure problem

2009-08-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 21:38 +0200, pk wrote: Albert Hopkins wrote: I can't get netkit-rsh (not that I want it but it's an (indirect) runtime dependency of xinit). This is a brand new machine that I'm building. Basically the error is: Checking for BSD signal semantics...

Re: [gentoo-user] netkit-rsh ./configure problem

2009-08-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 15:50 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 21:38 +0200, pk wrote: Albert Hopkins wrote: I can't get netkit-rsh (not that I want it but it's an (indirect) runtime dependency of xinit). This is a brand new machine that I'm building. Basically

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fast recursive local copy

2009-08-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 15 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag 14 August 2009 22:47:46 schrieb Joerg Schilling: Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Freitag 14 August 2009 10:50:45 schrieb Joerg Schilling: Note that on Linux you may need to add -no-fsync because file I/O is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fast recursive local copy

2009-08-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 14 August 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Freitag 14 August 2009 10:50:45 schrieb Joerg Schilling: Note that on Linux you may need to add -no-fsync because file I/O is slow on Linux. On Solaris, not using -no-fsync slows things

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-15 Thread Moshe Kamensky
* Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [15/08/09 09:30]: Have you tried emerging xorg-server with hal disabled? That is assuming you are using the 1.5 or 1.6 version. I'll try that, thanks. pgpLl0FkYmJuE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] netkit-rsh ./configure problem

2009-08-15 Thread Andrey Falko
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.orgwrote: On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 15:50 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 21:38 +0200, pk wrote: Albert Hopkins wrote: I can't get netkit-rsh (not that I want it but it's an (indirect) runtime