From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GzWS1-00013b-3i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:56:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBRAs1dH001078; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:54:01 GMT Received: from buggy.blubb.ch (cable-static-87-245-102-53.shinternet.ch [87.245.102.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBRAs0V4009099 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:54:00 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by buggy.blubb.ch with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1GzWME-0006sl-4H for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:50:07 +0100 Message-ID: <459250B0.5060407@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:53:36 +0200 From: Simon Stelling User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060909) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Meaning of gcc64 USE flag References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 177d0dc0-4235-4c39-91c2-95d7fd0f56f2 X-Archives-Hash: 46833815ee25d10bfff15510a9bfcb90 Robert Cernansky wrote: > Can anybody explain more? What are the pros and cons to switch it on/off? The USE flag is only effective on ppc64 and sparc where the kernel sometimes is the only code that is compiled 64bit and therefore a seperate, much smaller version of gcc is used to build the kernel. The flag should in fact be masked everywhere except for those profiles, which is what bug 144535 [1] deals with. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144535 -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list