Re: [gentoo-user] Re: default stage3

[Matthias Langer <mlangc@gmx.at>]

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 17:01 -0500, Ryan Sims wrote:
> > I installed gentoo on a dual Opteron box this weekend, I've always done
> > stage1 installs, but this time decided to try the recommeded stage3 method.
> > I understand the concept of doing an "emerge -e world" in order to get the
> > optimization of a stage1 install, and I've done this ( one time ) on the
> > install I just completed. Can sombody explain why it's necessary/desirable
> > to do this *twice*?
> >
> > What real difference does the second execution really make?
> >
> 
> As I understand it, the first time you recompile new toolchain with
> your old toolchain, and then the 2nd time you're recompiling the
> toolchain with the new toolchain, with the idea that the new toolchain
> will compile/assemble/link/etc everything in a different way than the
> old toolchain.
> 
> Please correct if I'm wrong.

I would suggest 'emerge -uD gcc && emerge -e world'; This should
recompile the new toolchain with the new toolchain and be considerably
faster.

Matthias

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