Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge glibc

2005-07-17 Thread Alexander Veit
Zac Medico wrote: Linuxthreads are the *old* linux threading library and nplt is the *new* linux threading library. I've been using nptlonly for a couple months now with no noticeable problems. AFAICT it's a drop in replacement for linuxthreads and it supposed to give superior

[gentoo-user] Cannot emerge glibc

2005-07-16 Thread Alexander Veit
Hi, When I try to emerge -u world, the only package that's going to be updated is glibc. However the build fails with the following error: --- snip --- /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i586-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthrea ds/linuxthreads/libpthread_pic.a(pthread.os)(.text+0x1cd): In

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge glibc

2005-07-16 Thread Alexander Veit
Richard Fish wrote: [...] MAKEOPTS=-j3 -j3 causes many build problems for many packages that build internal libraries and then try to link against them. -j1 is much safer. OK, now make runs with -j1. Unfortunately, on my machine, it takes a long long time for the first 3K files to

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge glibc

2005-07-16 Thread Alexander Veit
Zac Medico wrote: Alexander Veit wrote: Unfortunately, on my machine, it takes a long long time for the first 3K files to be built... BTW is there a way to resume the build process at the point where the error occurred? emerge --resume does not resume in the middle of a broken

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge glibc

2005-07-16 Thread Alexander Veit
Daniel Heemann wrote: Seems to be a known and not yet resolved problem on i586 hosts. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-329143-highlight-pthreadi nitialize+res.html Daniel, thank your for this link. It will have saved me a lot of time... -- Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge glibc

2005-07-16 Thread Alexander Veit
Zac Medico wrote: Yep, here's another forum thread and an open bug: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-343187-highlight-.html http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90236 I can tell you that it will work with i586 CHOST and USE=nptl nptlonly. Hmm. I guess, on Linux Linux threads would

RE: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Alexander Veit
Robert G. Hays wrote: In the Gentoo manual, in the early stages, it mentions -tT; nearby below, it mentions another hdparm line to speed things up. Did you try that line? I've tried it. The result is 19.11 MB/sec. But why are the values posted before so different? hdparm -vid /dev/hda

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Alexander Veit
Richard Fish wrote: Alexander Veit wrote: geometry = 4867/255/63, sectors = 78198750, start = 0 geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 4003776, start = 0 Well, the obvious thing for me is the difference in the drive geometries between the two systems...the 2.6 kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Alexander Veit
Robert G. Hays wrote: Well, we know what the drive can do; at least, At Least!, so I am left suspecting that the Gentoo kernel does not have the best setup for the mobo, --or-- has something in there for safety that has the effect of slowing the throughput down; make [ menuconfig |