Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

[neil <neil@ep.mine.nu>]

Holly Bostick wrote:

> Well, since I just (literally, 10 minutes ago) emerged
> mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2, and had no problems on a 32-bit system, I must
> suspect that this is a 64-bit issue.

Nope. I emerged both firefox and thunderbird without issue on my AMD64 
4000+ about 14 hours ago.

> In that regard, I see at least one thing in your emerge info that has
> been called into question for 64-bit users in recent threads:
> 
> CFLAGS="-march=k8

I use k8. k8, opteron, etc., etc. are supposed to be synonyms as I 
understand it. k8 is the preferred one according to most sources I have 
read but, if they are truly synonyms, I'm not sure why one should be 
preferred over another.

> Oh, and despite what Patrick said, I think you were right to post here
> first-- no need to clog up b.g.o with what might be a configuration
> problem and waste developer's time closing an invalid bug.
> 
> I think it's always wise to try to make sure that it really is a bug
> before posting it.

Quite right. I doubt that it is a bug - more likely a broken system in 
some way.

> the other person who mentioned using march=k8 said that
> that was the recommendation of the docs, but that seems to no longer be
> the case, if people using this flag are regularly receiving compilation
> errors

No errors here. :)


Be lucky,

Neil


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