On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 10 February 2010 17:33:46 Mark Knecht wrote: <SNIP> >> >> Is it just me? On a new install I always still to an emerge -e @world >> once I get to a working text based boot and I've done any modification >> to make.conf as I don't really know how the compiler or tool set was >> built. Just paranoid. > > That's worthwhile, it goes real quick once gcc and glibc are built. Plus > (until recently at least) the published stages always had an out of date gcc > on them. > >> I used to do it twice before I started installing apps or desktops but >> I've cut back. :-) > > Twice is pointless :-) > > gcc rebuilds itself twice to ensure that the binary is built with the same > version as the result, and verifies that the last two are bit-wise identical. > Then building the toolchain, then building the rest of world gives you exactly > what you hope to get from doing it twice. > And it was you or Neil or someone else here who pointed that out maybe 1-2 years ago so I stopped doing it twice.
But, heck, why not? I do a lot of pointless things every day. I only do new installs a few times a year... ;-) Anyway, right after the system first comes up it's usually less than 1 hour to do a complete rebuild of that most basic system and I've had very few _strange_ problems bringing up Gentoo since I started doing it. (In 2000, so 10 years now...) - Mark
