From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 113241382C5 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 23:38:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 751DFE0950; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 23:38:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-out-auth2.hosts.co.uk (mail-out-auth2.hosts.co.uk [212.84.127.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D4990E0903 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 23:38:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host86-149-69-253.range86-149.btcentralplus.com ([86.149.69.253] helo=[192.168.1.65]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1koxPm-0007uD-Ds for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 23:38:02 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update fails, but I don't see why To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <650a1d1d-e2a6-6a55-b07b-af65a877d44e@web.de> <20201212223503.6d46ad41@digimed.co.uk> <32af647f-a0e1-77e7-ff0f-4a5495e45f6b@web.de> <20201213081731.16f5dc53@digimed.co.uk> <15a5e013-1e5b-ec6e-1155-947d5fcbe329@web.de> <42df04c1-d8ac-cb0e-559a-39edc83a0888@gmail.com> <5FD73BD4.2030300@youngman.org.uk> <585209e9-0859-579a-27d9-ba27df7b1763@web.de> From: antlists Message-ID: <8798208a-8e00-7da0-154c-4a2e8de9ed19@youngman.org.uk> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 23:38:02 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <585209e9-0859-579a-27d9-ba27df7b1763@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 31370e11-154b-43ac-801b-046b2cab2fc6 X-Archives-Hash: f55ee62c87aeeff3e56e2ce3ca091fb1 On 14/12/2020 12:55, n952162 wrote: > On 12/14/20 11:17 AM, Wols Lists wrote: >> On 14/12/20 08:51, Dale wrote: >>> If you are able, maybe you can compile the bigger packages on a faster >>> system?  If it is a option, it may help. >> If I have multiple similar machines, I create a shared a shared local >> repository. Then I run emerge with the settings (can't remember what >> they are) "use binary if it's there, create binary". >> >> That way, especially the big ones, only get built on one machine. >> > > Oh man!  That would be wonderful.  How similar do they need to be?  All > my x86 machines are currently AMD, I think, but probably from different > generations. > What I would do is find out whatever -march fits the oldest chip, and then set that for all the machines. Especially if, as you say, they're all AMD the chances are the newer chips will be a superset of the old, so by compiling for the oldest it *should* (famous last words) work everywhere. Cheers, Wol