Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:13:19PM -0500, Al Raq wrote:
Hi all,
May be this is a stupid question but I had to ask.
I want to keep my gentoo installed in my machine for 3 years or more without
reinstalling it from scratch but just keeping updated. Is it possible ???
How easy to update gentoo to the next coming realeases with the 2.6
kernel. ,gcc, kde, and other major softwares ??
In which case(s) am I forced to reinstall gentoo from scratch ???
{Suppose that my Hardware is in great condition.}
The only situation that I've seen was in were the gcc/libc updates in
the 1.1-1.2 and 1.2-1.3/1.4 era of gentoo. Basically because of the
binary incompatibility of gcc 3.n to 3.n+1 (3.1 to 3.2 maybe, don't
remember exactly) it was a PITA to do an upgrade, because you had to
update your entire system from the ground up, and if something went
wrong you were hooped, so most (myself included) seemed to think that a
re-install with the newer and more forwards compatible version of gentoo
(and gcc) was the way to go. There's nothing to say that this won't
happen again.
As another poster has said the devs do their best, and regular updates
are going to do you fine in the foreseeable future!
alan
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Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 03:02, Alan wrote:
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:13:19PM -0500, Al Raq wrote:
Hi all,
May be this is a stupid question but I had to ask.
I want to keep my gentoo installed in my machine for 3 years or more
without reinstalling it from scratch but just keeping updated. Is it
possible ???
How easy to update gentoo to the next coming realeases with the 2.6
kernel. ,gcc, kde, and other major softwares ??
In which case(s) am I forced to reinstall gentoo from scratch ???
{Suppose that my Hardware is in great condition.}
The only situation that I've seen was in were the gcc/libc updates in
the 1.1-1.2 and 1.2-1.3/1.4 era of gentoo. Basically because of the
binary incompatibility of gcc 3.n to 3.n+1 (3.1 to 3.2 maybe, don't
remember exactly) it was a PITA to do an upgrade, because you had to
update your entire system from the ground up, and if something went
wrong you were hooped, so most (myself included) seemed to think that a
re-install with the newer and more forwards compatible version of gentoo
(and gcc) was the way to go. There's nothing to say that this won't
happen again.
As another poster has said the devs do their best, and regular updates
are going to do you fine in the foreseeable future!
alan
Thank you all for your valuable help !!!
Kind regards.
Al
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Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??
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On Tuesday 06 January 2004 19:13, Al Raq wrote:
Hi all,
May be this is a stupid question but I had to ask.
I want to keep my gentoo installed in my machine for 3 years or more
without reinstalling it from scratch but just keeping updated. Is it
possible ???
How easy to update gentoo to the next coming realeases with the 2.6
kernel. ,gcc, kde, and other major softwares ??
In which case(s) am I forced to reinstall gentoo from scratch ???
{Suppose that my Hardware is in great condition.}
The developers strive to make properly working as automatic as possible
upgrade paths when major things change.
At the moment there are no 'coming releases', gentoo is a living breathing
animal which is constantly being updated and evolving all the time.
emerge sync and emerge world -u and you are as upto date at the next guy.
With skill and care there are almost no senarios which would require a
reinstall from scratch. Hardware issues aside.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??
Al Raq wrote:
Hi all,
May be this is a stupid question but I had to ask.
I want to keep my gentoo installed in my machine for 3 years or more without
reinstalling it from scratch but just keeping updated. Is it possible ???
How easy to update gentoo to the next coming realeases with the 2.6
kernel. ,gcc, kde, and other major softwares ??
In which case(s) am I forced to reinstall gentoo from scratch ???
{Suppose that my Hardware is in great condition.}
All you have to do to keep your system up to date is 'emerge -upDv world' and 'emerge -uD
world'. There are no *releases* with Gentoo. The 1.4 that you see is really a version of
the LiveCD.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??
No, just do emerge sync on a routine basis. Then
emerge -uD system -p
and if you like what it will upgrade then let it go.
Then
emerge -uD world -p
and do the same. If you don't like what it will upgrade then upgrade the packages
listed individually. If there are updates to be done by etc-update DO NOT run
etc-update and let it do every update. Check the updates first to make sure it won't
mess up some files.
From: Al Raq [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2004/01/06 Tue PM 02:13:19 EST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??
Hi all,
May be this is a stupid question but I had to ask.
I want to keep my gentoo installed in my machine for 3 years or more without
reinstalling it from scratch but just keeping updated. Is it possible ???
How easy to update gentoo to the next coming realeases with the 2.6
kernel. ,gcc, kde, and other major softwares ??
In which case(s) am I forced to reinstall gentoo from scratch ???
{Suppose that my Hardware is in great condition.}
Kind Regards,
Al
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Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question
Try this, emerge app-i18n/kde-i18n-fr Philippe -- _ Philippe Van Hecke NETWORK ENGINEER BELNET Rue de la Science, 4 B-1000 Brussels Belgium Tel: +32 (0) 2790 Fax: +32 (0) 27903335 __ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] RE : [gentoo-user] newbie question
Title: RE : [gentoo-user] newbie question Thanks a lot Philippe ! I try it asap ..coool And if I want to recompile KDE anyway ... ;-) ??? How can I do this from a GRP installation ? (It just to understand how portage works) Best regards Stéphane PERON -Message d'origine- De : Philippe Van Hecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : lundi 25 août 2003 10:59 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question Try this, emerge app-i18n/kde-i18n-fr Philippe -- _ Philippe Van Hecke NETWORK ENGINEER BELNET Rue de la Science, 4 B-1000 Brussels Belgium Tel: +32 (0) 2790 Fax: +32 (0) 27903335 __ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Ce message contient des informations confidentielles ou appartenant au Cr=e9dit Lyonnais et est =e9tabli =e0 l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires. Toute divulgation, utilisation, diffusion ou reproduction (totale ou partielle) de ce message, ou des informations qu'il contient, doit =eatre pr=e9alablement autoris=e9e. Tout message =e9lectronique est susceptible d'alt=e9ration et son int=e9grit=e9 ne peut =eatre assur=e9e. Le Cr=e9dit Lyonnais d=e9cline toute responsabilit=e9 au titre de ce message s'il a =e9t=e9 modifi=e9 ou falsifi=e9. Si vous n'=eates pas destinataire de ce message, merci de le d=e9truire imm=e9diatement et d'avertir l'exp=e9diteur de l'erreur de distribution et de la destruction du message. Cr=e9dit Lyonnais, SA au capital de Euros 1.832.530.645 - RCS Lyon B 954 509 741 Si=e8ge Central : 19, boulevard des Italiens. 75002 Paris. France This e-mail contains confidential information or information belonging to Cr=e9dit Lyonnais and is intended solely for the addressees. The unauthorised disclosure, use, dissemination or copying (either whole or partial) of this e-mail, or any information it contains, is prohibited. E-mails are susceptible to alteration and their integrity cannot be guaranteed. Cr=e9dit Lyonnais shall not be liable for this e-mail if modified or falsified. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, please delete it immediately from your system and notify the sender of the wrong delivery and the mail deletion. Cr=e9dit Lyonnais SA. Share Capital of Euros 1.832.530.645. Registered Office : Lyon (B 954 509 741) Central and administrative Office : 19, boulevard des Italiens. 75002 Paris. France -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] RE : [gentoo-user] newbie question
Only do # emerge kde regards, Philippe. On Monday 25 August 2003 11:10, Peron, Stéphane wrote: Thanks a lot Philippe ! I try it asap ..coool And if I want to recompile KDE anyway ... ;-) ??? How can I do this from a GRP installation ? (It just to understand how portage works) Best regards Stéphane PERON -Message d'origine- De : Philippe Van Hecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : lundi 25 août 2003 10:59 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question Try this, emerge app-i18n/kde-i18n-fr Philippe -- _ Philippe Van Hecke NETWORK ENGINEER BELNET Rue de la Science, 4 B-1000 Brussels Belgium Tel: +32 (0) 2790 Fax: +32 (0) 27903335 __ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question
On Monday 25 August 2003 18:10, Peron, Stéphane wrote: And if I want to recompile KDE anyway ... ;-) ??? How can I do this from a GRP installation ? (It just to understand how portage works) Ordinarily, to recompile a package you can just give the command emerge package/name. However kde-base/kde is a little different. All it does is depend on individual parts of kde as a convenience. If you look in /usr/portage/kde-base/ you'll see many packages.Kde depends on: kde-base/kdelibs kde-base/kdebase kde-base/kdeaddons kde-base/kdeadmin kde-base/kdeartwork kde-base/kdeedu kde-base/kdegames kde-base/kdegraphics kde-base/kdemultimedia kde-base/kdenetwork kde-base/kdepim kde-base/kdetoys kde-base/kdeutils The only other package in the kde-base group is arts, which is depended on by some of the above packages. This gives a few options on how to recompile. The most basic is emerge -e kde-base/kde. This, however, won't only recompile kde but will recompile everything in your system that kde depends on, and anything those packages depend on. Usually, with this sort of command, most of the base system will be recompiled as well. To only recompile kde, including arts, you would need to emerge each of the packages listed above. This could be done one at a time or all together; i.e. emerge kde-base/kdelibs; emerge kde-base/kdebase; emerge kde-base/kde-addons; ... or emerge kde-base/kdelibs kde-base/kdebase kde-base/kdeaddons ... The latter command can be shortened somewhat and also made to include arts with the following: cd /usr/portage; emerge `find kde-base -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1` Note that they are `` and not '', shift-~ on a US keyboard. I hope this helped you to understand a little about how portage works! Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question about starting X
On Thursday 05 of June 2003 08:41, John wrote: Sounds like a font issue in XF86Config file. Maybe could resolve by using XFS? Might be worth a try: Run this as root: # rc-update add xfs default # /etc/init.d/xfs start Then log back in as regular user, and try startx again. Hi But I have xfs already in default level and xfs is already started :( -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question about starting X
I have very newbie question. I have a newbie answer! When I type startx as non-root user it says me that it couldn't load fixed font and it backs to console. Running startx as root works fine. At the moment I log in as root into my linux and run kdm. I configured kdm to log in into kde as non-root user. But I prefer logging as non-root user and startx. I'd would be very grateful for any help. Thanks Sounds like a font issue in XF86Config file. Maybe could resolve by using XFS? Might be worth a try: Run this as root: # rc-update add xfs default # /etc/init.d/xfs start Then log back in as regular user, and try startx again. I'm a linux newb myself.. I'm trying to make the transition from both FreeBSD (server) and XP (desktop)... So far, I've come a long ways! HTH, John -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question after installing kernel
Long long time ago, on Tuesday 04 March 2003 07:14 pm, richard terry wrote: Questions: 2)Does any sort of X display exist at the basic level You can use one of those GRP rc2 cd's with a pre-built XFREE binary for your system, however, it is outdated and you will be prompted to upgrade XFree anyways. 3)Could someone point me to doc's to download and install KDE3.1 You will notice a link that says Docs up top of the website, click that and find the Desktop howto guide. You can also install some sort of KDE 3.0-3.1 from the same binary packages available on the rc2 cd's... maybe you can find the packages on some mirror or something. Should get you up and running with X and KDE within 5-10 minutes, depending on the speed of your system. -- Louis C. Candell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8
First of all, thanks to all that have provided advice on how to migrate. Ok, so I've made up my mind and want to migrate to Gentoo... should I wait until 1.4 final or does the portage system make irrevelevant the distribution you start with? Is there an expeceted release date for 1.4 final? Thanks, regards Jose Matthew Kennedy wrote: Jose Gonzalez Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a freelance Java developer, and I have two machines: one that serves as develoment server (CVS, Apache, JBoss, OC4J, SAPDb, etc) and another one that I use as development workstation (Gnome, Netbeans, and the usual stuff like Mozilla, OpenOffice,...). I have taken a look to several reviews of Gentoo, and they all tell the same about installing it: it takes a loong time. I cannot I'm in a similar situation to yours (almost same tool set too). What I do is build my next gentoo install on whatever box (rh, gentoo etc.) in a chroot. This way I'm not wasting any time waiting for things to emerge. Than I tar up my chroot, keep it some place safe, boot, partition and unpack the tarballs across the network (NFS, FTP, netcat -- whatever is handy). This way I have exactly the system I want on first boot (GNOME, Emacs, Java etc.) with about 20 minutes (tops) down-time. You hit the ground running so to speak. Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8
On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 08:38:26 -0500 brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because of the great portage system releases have no meaning for Gentoo except for the CDs. Install 1.4rc3 and then keep up with emerge synch emerge -u system emerge -u world You might want to do -up for each just to see what it will update and check it over. This way you keep up to date and when 1.4 is released you are at 1.4 already. On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 12:48:02 +0100 Jose Gonzalez Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, thanks to all that have provided advice on how to migrate. Ok, so I've made up my mind and want to migrate to Gentoo... should Iwait until 1.4 final or does the portage system make irrevelevant the distribution you start with? Is there an expeceted release date for 1.4 final? With gentoo, there's almost never a good reason to wait, unless you need something special in the Livecd or something like the latest and greatest XFree. The latest and greatest XFree will either provide something you can't live without, or it will totally cobble your system. The latter is more likely! Don't wait. You can upgrade anything that comes out with 1.4 final when it's ready. -- Collins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8
On ons, 2003-03-05 at 15:42, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hi, I've been a RH8 user for a few months, and I'm really sick of the rpm stuff. I had a lot of problems installing a few things, and I still have things not working, like video conferencing. I heard of the gentoo distribution and thought I'd give it a try. I'm a freelance Java developer, and I have two machines: one that serves as develoment server (CVS, Apache, JBoss, OC4J, SAPDb, etc) and another one that I use as development workstation (Gnome, Netbeans, and the usual stuff like Mozilla, OpenOffice,...). I have taken a look to several reviews of Gentoo, and they all tell the same about installing it: it takes a loong time. I cannot afford having one of my machines down for a long period of time, so I was thinking about the way of migrating from RH8 to Gentoo. I have thought of buying another hard disk, install Gentoo on it, pass all my files from the old system to the new system, and use the old disk to repeat the same process in the new machine... what do you think of this? Any other solution? hmm, do u mean compiling one one machine and move the allready compiled programs to the other machine? im not sure, but i suppose that should work if the machine have equal hardware Please, notice I don't want to have several distributions lying around, so I think that making another partition and adding a new system to GRUB is not a solution. About installation time... my machines are AMD (1Ghz and 1,66 Ghz) with 256 and 512Mb of RAM. yes, installation takes time..., but you should have a ready system if you let it compile the whole weekend (including nights) I have an ADSL connection that gives me 25Kbytes/s. How much time do you think I may spend installing these systems? Is there any way to leverage the downloaded sources, so I don't have to download the same twice? yes, downloaded files are saved and are not deletead unless you do it by yourself, so u could do one of the boxes one weekend, then nfs share the downloaded sources and move them over to the other machine May I install Gentoo in several short steps shuting down the machine between them? Another question... is it possible to rollback an installation in Gentoo? Regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Martin Larsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8
Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hi, I'm a freelance Java developer, and I have two machines: one that serves as develoment server I have taken a look to several reviews of Gentoo, and they all tell the same about installing it: it takes a loong time. I cannot afford having one of my machines down for a long period of time, so I was thinking about the way of migrating from RH8 to Gentoo. I have thought of buying another hard disk, install Gentoo on it, pass all my files from the old system to the new system, and use the old disk to repeat the same process in the new machine... what do you think of this? Any other solution? I installed gentoo on a second drive (well, I have 3 hd's on this box (drives are cheap) and it took about 30 hrs to get a working kde system built from stage 1. That does include the false start when I didn't follow directions and I somehow broke the chroot environment during the first installation and had to startover =) I don't know if it could have taken less time because I didn't babysit the installation, I started up the longer operations and went to bed, when I got up it had stopped at some point waiting for a user response. Oh yeah, I have a Athlon-xp 2k with 512 mb ram and a cable connection. About installation time... my machines are AMD (1Ghz and 1,66 Ghz) with 256 and 512Mb of RAM. I have an ADSL connection that gives me 25Kbytes/s. How much time do you think I may spend installing these systems? Is there any way to leverage the downloaded sources, so I don't have to download the same twice? May I install Gentoo in several short steps shuting down the machine between them? Another question... is it possible to rollback an installation in Gentoo? I don't know about the rollback. You don't have to redownload the source twice, it's cached. Unless there was an update to the software. Neal -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH
Dont forget about bochs! http://bochs.sourceforge.net Welcome to the Bochs IA-32 Emulator Project Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS. Currently, bochs can be compiled to emulate a 386, 486 or Pentium CPU. Bochs is capable of running most Operating Systems inside the emulation including Linux, Windows? 95, DOS, and recently Windows? NT 4. Bochs was written by Kevin Lawton and is currently maintained by this project. Bochs can be compiled and used in a variety of modes, some which are still in development. The 'typical' use of bochs is to provide complete x86 PC emulation, including the x86 processor, hardware devices, and memory. This allows you to run OS's and software within the emulator on your workstation, much like you have a machine inside of a machine. For instance, let's say your workstation is a Unix/X11 workstation, but you want to run Win'95 applications. Bochs will allow you to run Win 95 and associated software on your Unix/X11 workstation, displaying a window on your workstation, simulating a monitor on a PC. A little slower than VMware, but its F R E E! :) -- Louis C. Candell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8
Alec Berryman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bochs is another alternative, but I've heard it is incredibly slow. Painfully slow. Heh. would be worth grabbing a free 30-day VMWare trial, or go the similarly speedy route of the UML tutorial. Yah, that UML tutorial does kick some major a**! I've used it to compile for my Cyrix6/86 box and all my other Pentium and K-5 boxes with minimal fuss. Your suggestion on using the UML tutorial was right on the spot :) That tutorial has saved me countless hours of work with minimal fuss. -- Alec Berryman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Louis C. Candell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8
Jose Gonzalez Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a freelance Java developer, and I have two machines: one that serves as develoment server (CVS, Apache, JBoss, OC4J, SAPDb, etc) and another one that I use as development workstation (Gnome, Netbeans, and the usual stuff like Mozilla, OpenOffice,...). I have taken a look to several reviews of Gentoo, and they all tell the same about installing it: it takes a loong time. I cannot I'm in a similar situation to yours (almost same tool set too). What I do is build my next gentoo install on whatever box (rh, gentoo etc.) in a chroot. This way I'm not wasting any time waiting for things to emerge. Than I tar up my chroot, keep it some place safe, boot, partition and unpack the tarballs across the network (NFS, FTP, netcat -- whatever is handy). This way I have exactly the system I want on first boot (GNOME, Emacs, Java etc.) with about 20 minutes (tops) down-time. You hit the ground running so to speak. Matt -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer Bugs go to http://bugs.gentoo.org! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question after installing kernel
1)Where can I find the log file to tell me what I've compiled wrong in the kernel? Poke around /var/log. Depending on what logger you are using, the files will be in different places. I'm using metalog and get some kernel messages in /var/log/kernel. The best thing is to just keep a watchful eye on bootup. 2)Does any sort of X display exist at the basic level Not unless you've installed X :) You can try GPM for mouse support (remember to start it up with '/etc/init.d/gpm start'). 3)Could someone point me to doc's to download and install KDE3.1 Just type an 'emerge kde' and you're good to go. If you have problems, check the Gentoo forums or the mailing list archives. Also, if you haven't, check out the Gentoo Desktop Guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml). Good luck! -- Alec Berryman [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what packagesupplies the foo command
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Jonathan Morton wrote: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf: line 70: 30112 Illegal instruction imake Looks like you built using over-aggressive CFLAGS. or a cpu type that's not equal to what's in your computer regards, stijn -- -- from: Jonathan Chromatix Morton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/ tagline: The key to knowledge is not to rely on people to teach you it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what package supplies the foo command
A k6-2 is a i586, change your CHOST setting. I ran
into this same issue.
Todd
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question not in the faq: what package supplies the foo command
Thanks very much for your suggestions. I suppose that's possible -- I
haven't found a reference that maps the output from /etc/cpuinfo to the
suggested CHOST and CFLAGS, and I feel kind of unclear on that. I don't
really know how names of processors, like "athlon", "celeron", "pentium",
etc., correspond to the possible values forCHOST/CFLAGS. Is there
a definitive reference? Speaking of that, why not just have there be an
option for Gentoo to read /proc/cpuinfo and choose a reasonable CFLAGS value
for it?
My last attempt failed the same way, after changing CFLAGS to "-march-k6-2
-pipe ". Will I have to recompile everything with different CFLAGS
and/or CHOST values?
Currently, from /etc/make.conf
USE="X gtk gnome -alsa"CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"CFLAGS="-march=k6-2
-pipe "CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"RSYNC_RETRIES="3"
dana etc # cat
/proc/cpuinfoprocessor :
0vendor_id : AuthenticAMDcpu
family :
5model :
8model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D
processorstepping : 12cpu
MHz : 500.025cache
size : 64
KBfdiv_bug :
nohlt_bug :
nof00f_bug :
nocoma_bug :
nofpu
: yesfpu_exception : yescpuid
level :
1wp!
:
yesflags : fpu
vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow
k6_mtrrbogomips : 996.14
dana etc #
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what
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Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 05:38:25 +0100 (CET)
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Jonathan Morton wrote:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf: line 70: 30112 Illegal
instruction imake
Looks like you built using over-aggressive CFLAGS.
or a cpu type that's not equal to what's in your computer
regards,
stijn
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Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what package supplies the foo command
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 01:09:35 -0500, Todd Punderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oops, crud I posted HTML accidentally I think, damn windows client.
Anyway,
a K6-2 is a i586, you'll need to fix your CHOST. On a K6-2 that I have, I
use:
CHOST=i586-pc-linux-gnu
CFLAGS=-march=k6-2 -O3 -pipe
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
i686 flags mean you have pentium-pro instructions. Pentium pro
instructions are on the PII, but not the pentium or pentium-mmx, or any of
the k6 k6-2 chips. (I don't knwo about k6-3 and 4).
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