Gentoo help please!!!

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Thanks Jeremy. That helps.

On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 07:19, geeojr at krombie.net wrote:
> > I am/was attempting to do a stage 1 install and when I get to the
> > make.conf file I have problems. I am following the documentation from
> > Gentoo for the x86 and it sayes very little as far as what you "NEED" to
> > do here. I Know there are probably lots of things that could be
> > optimized here. In the actual file "make.conf" only one line is
> > uncommented. Is it supposed to stay like that? I went and uncommented
> > all lines that looked like commands and set paths.
> 
> Most of the options in there are for customizations. The defaults do most
> people just fine. There are some things you should customize in there in
> order to Gentoo to take advantage of your particular hardware. Below is an
> example from one of my systems:
> 
> USE="3dnow sse mmx imap mysql php gd truetype aalib jpeg gif png -X -qt
> -perl -kde -gnome -alsa -arts -gtk -sdl"
> CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> CFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe"
> CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
> 
> These should, in my opinion, always be setup with Gentoo. The USE variable
> tells gentoo what software you want it to build for or ignore in the case
> of the ones starting with '-'. This is from a headless server so you'll
> probably want to clean it up a little (i.e. put kde or gnome back in).
> Adjust the CFLAGS for your processor, in your case just make it an
> athlon-xp. CXXFLAGS just re-uses the CFLAGS variable. In addition, you also
> might consider:
> 
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
> MAKEOPTS="-j3"
> 
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS tends to pull somewhat newer packages and is considered
> somewhat more unstable -- use at your own risk (I just removed it from most
> of my systems). MAKEOPTS allows you to pass options to make. '-j3' tells
> make to run 3 jobs at the same time. General rule of thumb is to set this
> to one more than the number of processors. This will help keep your system
> saturated during installation. It might even shave a few seconds off of
> your compiles.
> 
> 
> > Also I have an AMD XP
> > processor so as the Gentoo docs say to specify "-march=athlon-xp" BUT in
> > the make file it also has as an example after that "-03 pipe"
> 
> I have an athlon-xp that runs fine with these pretty conservative
> optimizations.
> 
> > Maybe I should just go with a stage 2 or 3 .
> 
> It saves quite a bit of time to go with 2 or 3 and probably doesn't hurt
> you all that much in speed. At least, it's nothing you'll ever notice.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Jeremy R. Geeo
> 
> 
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