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 suffi

[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 ... exce

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 ver

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

[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 u

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 ] app-emacs/emacs-w3

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 v

[gentoo-user] PAM and utmp

2012-02-17 Thread Nils Holland
on earth is really responsible to record my login this days. ;-) Am I the only thing seeing 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] Two local subnets and IPv6

2011-03-09 Thread Nils Holland
t for a cheaper 200 or even 85 MBit/s model without much loss in real-world performance). All of that's off-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
. And of course, any machines "behind" GentooBox2 could establish 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) Ou

Re: [gentoo-user] usb modem pantech uml290

2011-02-28 Thread Nils Holland
uld get you started. 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] The CHOST variable

2011-02-10 Thread Nils Holland
away from -fomit-frame-pointer. If it really suggests 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] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-09 Thread Nils Holland
a few additional machines, one of which 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] i586 stage3 tarball

2011-02-09 Thread Nils Holland
lly tarring the whole thing back up again. 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
: Although I believe the provided stage3 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

2011-02-08 Thread Nils Holland
self. ;-) I'll post again when I have my i586 stage3 available for download. Folks wanting to perform a new Gentoo installation 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

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-07 Thread Nils Holland
uilt something that would make problems when using the normal portage tree and coming into a situation 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 o

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-05 Thread Nils Holland
On 21:21 Fri 04 Feb , Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Nils Holland 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 suppos

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 tric

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 comp

[gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-03 Thread Nils Holland
in order to do something, but all of this stuff has always worked so well every time I've built 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] Re: How can I reset mount-count?

2011-02-03 Thread Nils Holland
fresh copy of it, without any significant fragmentation (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

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

2011-02-02 Thread Nils Holland
)." Could mean that you can skip this --metadata step on your 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

2011-02-02 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 >

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

2011-02-02 Thread Nils Holland
not as part of a script at boot time). Greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunsorf-Luthe (Germany) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998

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 othe

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 >

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

2011-01-31 Thread Nils Holland
ync out, however, immediately leads to problems, with various ebuild-related error messages on subsequent "emerge"s. 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" us

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

2011-01-31 Thread Nils Holland
y as LVM is involved in your setup), but I can see no major difference between these two cases that looks like trouble. Greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunsorf-Luthe (Germany) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998

[gentoo-user] HDD with too aggressive power management

2011-01-31 Thread Nils Holland
o do to get a script to run every time the power source changes. And that's why I'm writing this message, as any suggestions that could point me 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] Emerge Problems...

2011-01-30 Thread Nils Holland
y now as well, at least I can't see what should have changed concering the sync due to the act of replacing the server... Greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunsorf-Luthe (Germany) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998