Re: 64bit compilation

2007-03-28 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 3/28/07, Wilco Beekhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Optimizing builds can improve the speed of binaries a lot Nothing in contrary. But, the original poster was talking about 64 bit systems (CLFS) so I was talking about only the flags at the bottom of the page you pointed to. Where it says:

Re: GCC/GLIBC Bloat?

2007-03-28 Thread alupu
Hi Mickaël, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit > > Did you stripped your binaries ? Alex a écrit > As far as I remember I handled both builds (old and new) the same. > > I may have (unwittingly) stripped the old packages > (glibc-2.3.4 and gcc-3.4.3) after all. You were absolutely right. As a quick ch

Re: 64bit compilation

2007-03-28 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
> > If I follow the instructions of LFS and BLFS team and install a package > > (mysql for example) the configure script will use optimizations for 64bit > > or I have to do some configuration manually (setting machine tripplet, > > CCFLAGS .) > > Don't use any particular flag. If you run a 32

Re: mDNSResponder

2007-03-28 Thread Arden
On Mar 27, 2007, at 9:34 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: > I would also suggest looking at his nss-mdns module to allow resolving > hostnames on multicast networks. It's very convenient if you have > multiple machines doing multicasting on the same network. > > $ getent hosts silky.local > 192.168.1.2

Re: random number generator?

2007-03-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/28/07, anirudh vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > sorry to bug you again.i had'nt rebooted my computer for 2 days ,so i > had'nt really checked whether the issue was resolved. > but as i had said earllier, dd is in /bin now. > still on startup, i got: > > Initializing Random Number Gen

Re: random number generator?

2007-03-28 Thread anirudh vij
hi, sorry to bug you again.i had'nt rebooted my computer for 2 days ,so i had'nt really checked whether the issue was resolved. but as i had said earllier, dd is in /bin now. still on startup, i got: Initializing Random Number Generator [FAIL] on shutdown: Saving Random Seed

Re: jdk (or: SUN assholeness)

2007-03-28 Thread anirudh vij
quench the flames guys! On 3/26/07, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, jignesh gangani wrote: > Hi, > You are building your own distro and don't won't to build JDK and/or JRE > ?? What makes you think that?! > Sun has realeased the source code for JDK under vario

Re: alsa cannot detect sound device

2007-03-28 Thread anirudh vij
hi, alsa works now.Thanks !! On 3/28/07, jignesh gangani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I don't think you need to compile any modules or recompile the kernel. You have selected your sound card driver to build right into the kernel. That's why the modprobe says it can't find module snd.

Re: 64bit compilation

2007-03-28 Thread Andrey Voropaev
On 3/28/07, Luca Dionisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moreover, I think that the physical RAM limit is more important > than the virtual memory one. At the very moment. > Because rarely a single process needs more than 3 GB of memory. > Instead, more frequently a PC runs many processes at a time, >

Re: 64bit compilation

2007-03-28 Thread Luca Dionisi
Moreover, I think that the physical RAM limit is more important than the virtual memory one. At the very moment. Because rarely a single process needs more than 3 GB of memory. Instead, more frequently a PC runs many processes at a time, and so the total amount of used memory could grow up. just m

Re: 64bit compilation

2007-03-28 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 3/27/07, Andrey Voropaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really, physical RAM is not that important. Why not? If my PC has 6 GB of RAM, and the CPU has a 64bit architecture, but the O.S. is 32 bit, then it will never use more than 3-4 GB. Am I wrong? > There's always swap space. > As long as it