On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 19:59, Spider wrote: > If you just finished , "DONT TOUCH CHOST" . ok? gcc encodes > librarypaths with CHOST,
Is that all it's for? Names? > so changing it in a live system will cause... > erm. "headaches" . so to say. (Complete borkage unless you're good, > actually) I was thinking I'd need probably to start over some. Like at the bootstrap. > CFLAGS is ok to change , and -march=pentium3 sounds good. So I've got a bunch of stuff optimized for a P3, labeled i486? Sounds like no problem for the computer, but something that might bite a human (me) bad as soon as I forget. > try MAKEOPTS="-j4" or a bit more then, Won't confuse anything in the kernel or start swap-thrashing? > please note that some packages > aren't multi-make friendly and will therefore override MAKEOPTS. No, > this is not because we are evile hackers who impend our will on you, I know there are no evil hackers at Gentoo -- they're all over at Grub working on jokes to play on Linux installers. Did you know that Grub calls all disks "hd" no matter whether they're IDE or SCSI? That's a good one. This is really fun. And all that compiling clears the Microsoft bits out of my chips :-) Gentoo, IMHO, is the proper way to do a distro. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
