| Daryl_ | haha I want to learn more about linux. I'm somewhat unix adept, but I always hated linux |
| Boohbah | gentoo is a great learning experience |
| drazak | Gentoo is a great distro |
| Daryl_ | I understand the fundamental computing concepts very well tho, avid c++ programmer and I know many scripted languages and pocito assembler |
| Kurlon | As a heavy FreeBSD user, Gentoo is a good linux to pick up. |
| cruxeternus | Daryl_: LFS is an even better learning experience, if that's your main criterial. |
| drazak | marienz: you want to remerge binutils too |
| marienz | drazak: why? |
| Daryl_ | no, my main goal here is getting my laptop and some nifty wireless tools working |
| drazak | marienz: because without that being updated your system is b0rked I did it 4 times |
| Daryl_ | I'm learning linux as a byproduct now. I did a gentoo install probably about 4 years ago |
| marienz | drazak: clarify? my system isn't broken afaik, and I haven't seen anything about JanisB's problem that points at binutils? it just seems gcc got rebuilt with the wrong CHOST set? |
| drazak | (Really, if you want to save yourself a LOT of trouble, backup your home directories and start from the i686 stage3) marienz: oh, I thought they were changing it |
| Daryl_ | but I understand the fundamentals of an OS and computing more, so this time I can figure most stuff out before I have trouble |
| cruxeternus | Daryl_: Would getting something running fairly quickly also be a priority? |
| marienz | drazak: I'm not changing CHOST. Afaict JanisB isn't intentionally changing CHOST either. |
| drazak | Okay, good. |
| Daryl_ | no, not a priority. getting it running right. |
| marienz | drazak: (notice the (old) 3.4 gcc is correctly i686, it's just the new malfunctioning freshly built 4.1 that isn't) |
| drazak | ahh marienz: I didn't see all of it |
| JanisB | marienz, will "emerge gcc" overwrite all needed files for gcc and cure all 4.1.1 <-> 3.4.4 dependences? |
| marienz | ok :) |
| Daryl_ | otherwise I'd have jumped ship on compiling all my packages a bit ago :) hey, can anyone tell me how I can add make options to a portage package? I was trying to do kismet with an suidinstall, but it wouldn't let me before. |
| cruxeternus | Daryl_: Add options? |
| Daryl_ | can I do the same thing to turn on config options like gpsmap? |
| marienz | JanisB: no. If I understood the problem correctly you already had a working system using 4.1, and rebuilt 4.1 at which point it broke. Remerging gcc should give you a working 4.1 again, after which you should "gcc-config 1" to actually ues it again :) |
| Kurlon | Hopefully there is a useflag for that ebuild to enable the options you want |
| Daryl_ | its a make flag, but it seems like the ebuild inherently disables gpsmap without option woah wait |
| cruxeternus | Daryl: only what emerge exposes to you |
| marienz | Daryl_: USE flags, if not available through USE flags edit the ebuild (using an overlay) to add USE flags |
| Daryl_ | suidinstall is make flag, not the gpsmap ah, I need to read on overlays (layman I guess that is) |
| marienz | Daryl_: if you're editing stuff by hand you don't want layman. |