I seem to remember an older version of the handbook (2004.0 or so) suggesting you compile with -java so that your compile time was greatly reduced. So I think you are fine.
Besides, I can't think of any system package that requires java... On 7/10/05, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I *think* I have it figured out. After setting up the logging, I > fired up the build again, and when it finally failed, there was a > message "you need perl 5" during the openssl package install. So I > tried emerging perl by itself, and it fails because the java ebuild > was not in the portage directory. So I changed java in my USE= list to > -java, and restarted the build. So far, it's going well. My question I > guess is, did I come up with the right solution, or will having -java > in my USE= list cause me problems later on? > > On 7/10/05, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm rebuilding my system from scratch, using 2005 and a stage 2 build. > > It keeps failing in the emerge --emptytree system process. I suspect > > my make.conf is the problem. So a couple questions... > > > > 1. On the USE flags, this time around, I put in everything that > > sounded like I wanted, which ended up being a very long list. Am I > > better off having a very short list of USE flags, as shown in the > > example in the docs? > > > > 2. I have -march=athlon64 in my make.conf file. My processor is an > > AMD64 Athlon 3200+. Is that the correct march= setting? Maybe that's > > my whole problem rather than my USE flags list?? > > > > Thanks all, > > -- > > Mark > > [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own] > > > > > -- > Mark > [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own] > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
