I was just mentioning gentoo because that was what I was using for the
class.... But I don't think it was exclusively a gentoo issue.
Rob wrote:
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 02:10:58PM -0400, Jason Ellison wrote:
Just a heads up there are some inconsistencies between running Bochs on
the 412 cluster and your home machine. For example Bochs on gentoo
produces different results when reading the ELF header then what you
will get on the cluster. If you live on campus my recommendation would
be just to run Bochs off the cluster using X forwarding.
I have recently been *twice* badly bitten by gentoo builds of thing
instead of rolling it my own. I built dhcpd and bind from emerge
(granted, on a 64-bit Ultra10), and in both cases the gentoo versions
of the build did crappy things, where as downloading the source and
building it on my own fixed the problems: dhcp would SIGBUS die when
ever it received any requests, and bind would periodically hang and stop
answering queries.
My current opinion of gentoo builds is dropping quickly, so if it's
something that really matters to you (like say, for a grade ;-), I would
say build it yourself instead of emerging it.
As a side note, does anyone here have experience with the sparc debian
distro?
- Rob
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University of Maryland
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