My new machine is working & compiles lightning-fast :
it feels like the driver of a steam engine hurtling down the tracks
(I've just finished a biography of J G Robinson, the UK loco designer).
I've just recompiled most of the pkgs listed by 'emerge -ep system',
but found a few problems :
(1) Gcc
On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 10:47:47 -0400
Philip Webb wrote:
> My new machine is working & compiles lightning-fast :
> it feels like the driver of a steam engine hurtling down the tracks
> (I've just finished a biography of J G Robinson, the UK loco
> designer).
>
> I've just recompiled most of the pkgs
> (1) Gcc 4.5.4 seems to require USE="cxx", not the previous "-nocxx",
> which was covered by "-*" at the beginning of my list in make.conf .
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/73962
I guess they ended not putting in the check after all :)
andrea
On Sat, Sep 08 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 10:47:47 -0400
> Philip Webb wrote:
>
>> (3) Groff + Openssh have an "X" flag : is this useful ?
>
> for groff this builds gxditview, whatever that is. Probably an X
> man-page viewer. I've never used it, I always run man in a termina
On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 10:47:47AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote
> Incidentally, I've found out why the system creates many TTYs :
> they're the equivalent of GUI workspaces = desktops,
> allowing someone working without X to view different files etc.
> I'm continually struck by the genius of those who
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