Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new box

[Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca>]

071023 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:30:58 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>> (1) it refused to compile 'sandbox' with some error;
> this is often fixed by 'FEATURES="-sandbox" emerge -1 sandbox'

It was fixed, as were errors in compiling Glibc & Gcc,
by enabling 'IA32' in the kernel: IIRC this isn't mentioned in the dox.

>> (2) it can't find 'revdep-rebuild' despite saying I should run it !
> emerge gentoolkit, doesn't the message that tells you to run it
> tell you how to get it?

The issue is why the package providing a necessity like 'revdep-rebuild'
is not included in the 'system' list, but has to be emerged separately.
Does anyone have an explanation (smile) ?

The new machine (Intel Core 2 Duo 6750; memory 1066 MHz) is lightning-fast;
the 2003 box (AMD Athlon 2500+; memory 400 MHz) is no sloth,
but the new one is  c 3 times  faster (earlier downloads were  c 5 min ) :

  gtk+-2.10.14              13 m     5 m  1 s
  xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r1    16 m     6 m 15 s
  glibc-2.6.1               41 m    13 m  4 s + download
  gcc-4.1.2                 87 m    34 m 19 s + download

It makes up for all those years I used my little XT (due for a museum)
to access a UoT mainframe, being too poor to upgrade
(which did prevent me from ever taking up M$ Windows (big grin)).

As always, thanks to all the devs who make Gentoo work so well.

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