Re: [gentoo-user] If I avaoided pic/PIC/pie; would it help/hurt?

2017-12-05 Thread Nils Holland
On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 05:48:52PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm looking at going with... > > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-pic > -fno-PIC -fno-pie -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables" > CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" Hmm ... is this really

[gentoo-user] systemd-vconsole-setup: Suddenly fails after system rebuild

2017-12-05 Thread Nils Holland
Hi folks, well, I have a weird issue here: Over the weekend, I switched to the new 17.0 profiles, and as part of that process, did an "emerge -e @world" on my ~x86/systemd machine. Took a while, but that was expected, and I was glad to see that afterwards everything was still working fine ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest chromium-40 on ~x86

2015-01-25 Thread Nils Holland
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 02:03:48PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: I gave up on chromium starting from chromium-36, where they dropped pre-SSE2 x86 support (and I use such system: Athlon-XP). I tried to re-add this stuff with partial success (works, but still SIGILLs sometimes) and it's very

Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-01-24 Thread Nils Holland
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 11:29:53AM -0600, Dale wrote: Well, I have dd'd the thing a few times and ran the tests again, it still gives errors. What's odd, they seem to move around. Is there a bug crawling around in my drive?? lol # 1 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 40%

[gentoo-user] Latest chromium-40 on ~x86

2015-01-24 Thread Nils Holland
Hi folks, I've been using chromium successfully on my ~x86 system for quite a long time, but starting with the last two updates that came in during the last few days (namely, chromium-40.0.2214.85 and chromium-40.0.2214.91), I started having problems. Both of these versions build just fine, but

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/emacs-24

2014-12-18 Thread Nils Holland
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 07:06:32PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Well, that knocks down most of the unwanted pkgs but still as you see: emerge -vp emacs-w3m [ebuild N ] virtual/emacs-24 0 KiB [ebuild N ] virtual/w3m-0 0 KiB [ebuild N ]

[gentoo-user] PAM and utmp

2012-02-17 Thread Nils Holland
this, or can somebody confirm this? Any hints would be greatly appreciated! Thanks and greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunstorf-Luthe (Germany) Our Gentoo mirror: http://rush.tisys.org/ (IPv4 + IPv6) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998

Re: [gentoo-user] PAM and utmp

2012-02-17 Thread Nils Holland
On 22:37 Fri 17 Feb , Nils Holland wrote: I have the strong feeling that my ~x86 Gentoo box no longer seems to record local logins into /var/run/utmp. When I use screen or login via ssh, everything works fine, but I can do millions of local, non-X11 plain vanilla terminal logins without

Re: [gentoo-user] Two local subnets and IPv6

2011-03-09 Thread Nils Holland
-topic, though, I just thought I'd tell how things eventually worked out. ;-) Greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunstorf-Luthe (Germany) Our Gentoo mirror: http://rush.tisys.org/ (IPv4 + IPv6) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998

[gentoo-user] Two local subnets and IPv6

2011-03-07 Thread Nils Holland
their own IPv6 tunnel connections, but ... well ... I the strong feeling that what I've been trying above should work as well ... somehow! ;-) Greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunstorf-Luthe (Germany) Our Gentoo mirror: http://rush.tisys.org/ (IPv4 + IPv6) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998

Re: [gentoo-user] usb modem pantech uml290

2011-02-28 Thread Nils Holland
, but you might want to have a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/usb/acm.txt on your local machine (assuming you have the kernel sources installed). If your USB modem happens to support the CDC ACM standard, then the information in that file should get you started. Greetings, Nils -- Nils

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-10 Thread Nils Holland
this, that might be considered a bug I guess. ;-) Greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunstorf-Luthe (Germany) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998

Re: [gentoo-user] i586 stage3 tarball

2011-02-09 Thread Nils Holland
the whole thing back up again. Greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunstorf-Luthe (Germany) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-09 Thread Nils Holland
happens to run Postfix. I guess I'm going to delay that a bit now. ;-) Greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunstorf-Luthe (Germany) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-08 Thread Nils Holland
on an i586 kind of machine could then just grab and use that one if they don't want to use Gentoo's i486 stage3 (and stay at i486 or change the CHOST / CFLAGS to i586 after installation themselves). Greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunstorf-Luthe (Germany) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998

[gentoo-user] i586 stage3 tarball

2011-02-08 Thread Nils Holland
tarball to work just fine, it has not been thoroughly tested, so use at your own risk and report any problems you encounter to me. There shouldn't really be any, but who knows! ;-) Greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunstorf-Luthe (Germany) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-07 Thread Nils Holland
where it wants to build a new (nptl-enabled) glibc for the first time, not to mention that I don't have a clue what other stuff would break when the user tries to install it from portage on a system that comes with a glibc I've hacked to come without nptl. Greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-05 Thread Nils Holland
On 21:21 Fri 04 Feb , Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Nils Holland n...@tisys.org wrote: 1) So a package using the GNU build system determines or is passed (via --host aka. CHOST) a target triplet specifying the system on which the resulting compiled code is supposed to run. What does

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-04 Thread Nils Holland
Florian Philipp wrote: Am 04.02.2011 01:27, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Yes, if you are real smart it can be done. But real smart really does mean real smart i.e. not for the faint of heart and certainly not worth being officially supported. Is the same true for more compatible arches like

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-04 Thread Nils Holland
Alan McKinnon wrote: Interestingly, Ubuntu has always built for basic arches, and they seem to get away with it. IIRC they are now on i586 but for the longest time used i386. No performance issues. You might want to investigate how they do their builds and see if you can use their tricks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I reset mount-count?

2011-02-03 Thread Nils Holland
(yet), so this might also play a role in leading to faster fsck performance. In any case, besides that I can say that at least on that one system of mine, ext4 works really well and I've not yet had any problems with it. Greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunstorf-Luthe (Germany

[gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-03 Thread Nils Holland
a package, and if feels kind of strange not to know why / how it actually works. As neither the docs of autoconf, binutils nor GCC could properly enlighten me, I thought I'd ask here. ;-) Greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunstorf-Luthe (Germany) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I reset mount-count?

2011-02-02 Thread Nils Holland
-- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunsorf-Luthe (Germany) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998

Re: [gentoo-user] HDD with too aggressive power management

2011-02-02 Thread Nils Holland
On 22:08 Tue 01 Feb , Nils Holland wrote: I guess it's probably the way this machine works, and feel that the reference to acpid sounds like a very promising way to fixing this. As such, thanks to everyone who pointed me into that direction - I'll have a look and see if it works

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-02 Thread Nils Holland
other machines? Greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunsorf-Luthe (Germany) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998

Re: [gentoo-user] HDD with too aggressive power management

2011-02-01 Thread Nils Holland
On 08:38 Tue 01 Feb , Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 22:09 +0100, Nils Holland wrote: However, now comes the problem: It seems that whenever I change from wall power to battery power (probably also vice versa, but I haven't tested this often enough), the machine's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread Nils Holland
On 18:13 Mon 31 Jan , Dale wrote: Nils Holland wrote: In fact, what I always do is sync one of my machines with an official Gentoo mirror via emerge --sync, and then I just use rsync to distribute the updated tree to all my other local machines as in: rsync --delete -trmv

[gentoo-user] HDD with too aggressive power management

2011-01-31 Thread Nils Holland
into the right direction are very welcome. ;-) Greetings and thanks in advance, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunsorf-Luthe (Germany) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998

Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Nils Holland
like trouble. Greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunsorf-Luthe (Germany) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-01-31 Thread Nils Holland
ebuild-related error messages on subsequent emerges. I can imagine that the OP did, in fact, update his tree in such an inconsistent manner, but that can certainly be fixed, with the surest way being a emerge --sync using an official mirror. Greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunsorf

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Problems...

2011-01-30 Thread Nils Holland
to the act of replacing the server... Greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunsorf-Luthe (Germany) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998