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About compiling Gentoo from stage1...

sleepy_shadowsleepy_shadow Ranger
in Zocalo v2.0
I'm starting with it, but the prospect looks... arduous.

Does anyone know... with a Celeron 2.4, how many days of compile time should I reserve... for building a Gentoo complete with X and some desktop environment, on -O3 optimization level?

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  • The Cabl3 GuyThe Cabl3 Guy Elite Ranger
    two weeks...

    I gave up on Linux...
  • sleepy_shadowsleepy_shadow Ranger
    Well, two weeks cannot be pure compile time, can it?

    Together with all other tinkering, though... setting up a good server, secure enough to stay for prolonged periods in public Internet... does require about a week.

    (Finally decided to use Gentoo, to get a taste of how this distribution ticks. I've been using various Linuces for multiple years now, but generally prefer Mandriva on laptops/desktops and Debian on robots/servers. But in this case, I need to squeeze the last drops of speed out of this system.)
  • CurZCurZ Resident Hippy
    You might get a couple more of those drops, but they won't be many. IMO, there's very little point in using stage1 for a performance boost compared to the amount of effort involved.
  • BekennBekenn Sinclair's Duck
    It took me about three days to set up Gentoo on my Athlon XP 2800+. There were more problems after that due to my specific hardware, and I haven't ever gotten around to fixing it up.
  • sleepy_shadowsleepy_shadow Ranger
    Bah. It seems I over-optimized. With architecture set to "pentium2" and optimization set to "-O3", it cannot build itself a gcc.

    Which sadly means... I will have to postpone my testing of Gentoo.

    This Celeron will be another of my Debian-based machines, with just the kernel (and perhaps some key programs, those which constantly perform active work) optimized to local processor features.
  • JamboJambo Scriptkiddie
    If I were you I'd change it to -O2, and set some LDFLAGS in your make.conf aswell.

    O3 didn't seem to produce a significant enough performance boost for all the binary bloat produced.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Stage 1? [i]O3?[/i] Dude! Over the top! O3 is known to cause massive slowdowns rather than improve speed, and stage 1 is pointless really. You won't gain that much speed from it and everything in there gets rebuilt eventually anyway in the natural course of regular upgrades.

    Frankly, I don't consider gentoo to be worth using just to get that "little bit" of extra performance out of it. I use it because I love the package manager and system layout.
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