Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: x86_64 optimization patches for glibc.

[Karol Krizka <kkrizka@gmail.com>]

On 8/1/05, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> Jan Jitse Venselaar posted <200508011105.14688.janjitse@gmail.com>,
> excerpted below,  on Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:04:38 +0200:
> 
> > As the reporter of the problem with nano, I'd like to make 1 correction to
> > this report: Recompiling nano and its depencies did not fix the crashes. It
> > just fixed the eating of the file.
> 
> Thanks for the correction.
> 
I am just compiling my amd64 laptop from stage1 again, but this time I
applied the patches right in the beginning. Nano seems to run fine so
far (in chroot), so how do you get the crashes? I tried searching as
mentioned in the abose post.

> > I did not recompile my entire system, but a crash of such a small and basic
> > app as nano made me not want to do this outside of a chroot, which I
> > currently do not have the means for.
> 
> A rather good point.  Of course, some of us like living on the edge <g>,
> but it's still something I'd not add as a dev, certainly not unless it was
> linked to some sort of local
> USE=this-might-kill-your-children-and-eat-their-flesh type of USE flag! <g>
> 
> (OK, s/children/files/, s/their-flesh/your-disk/, but you get the point...)
> 
> Never-the-less, I added the strings patch here, and have the new KDE 3.4.2
> stuff at least, compiled against it...  Computing is my hobby; if I
> wanted something that would predictably "just work", I'd be doing TiVos or
> the like!  Much of the fun is the occasional breakage in mysterious ways,
> never knowing quite when it'll happen, and the challenge of figuring out
> how to get back to a working system, again!
> 
So if you wanted something to just work you would be running Linux on
TiVo? I think a intel computer would be better for that...

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Cheers,
Karol Krizka

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