[gentoo-amd64] Re: Can not compile gcc

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

"Mansour Al Akeel" <mansour.alakeel@gmail.com> posted
2a21586d0811141858h285d1e98ka29524bc2d74ed47@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
below, on  Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:58:41 -0400:

> After I enabled IA32_EMULATION everything went fine. gcc emerge was
> succefull and installed glibc, now I am installing gnome. 

Cool! =:^)

> Since I am new
> to gentoo, I decided to have a look at the profile concept. In the
> future, if I find that I don't need the 32-bit java plugin for applets
> or flash or drivers for my wireless, nvidia ... etc, I will reconsider
> switching my profile to no-multilib. I am expecting a lot of issues to
> resolve when I do so, but that's ok.

Profiles are a neat concept, indeed.  It's very useful to be able to set 
a desktop or server, or no-multilb, profile, and have it "magically" set 
many USE flags and some other stuff appropriately, without having to set 
each one individually.

If you stick around for awhile, new profiles come online with support for 
new features, and old ones may be deprecated.  There's a nice howto guide 
for changing or upgrading your profile, when the time comes, but it's 
generally quite easy, and because Gentoo normally does rolling upgrades, 
making individual package upgrades available as they come out, you've 
usually upgraded nearly all your packages before changing the profile, 
and it's MUCH MUCH easier than upgrading from one release to another of a 
binary distribution.

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