Gentoo:fluxbox

Robert0380 · 10-09-2003, 02:47 AM

im in the middle of a Gentoo install (emerge sync wont freaking act right at the moment).

the question is, does Gentoo have an emerge fluxbox option? I dont want KDE or Gnome. If not, i'd happily install it myself, but emerge would be much nicer.

Robert0380 · 10-09-2003, 02:55 AM

another question.

when emerge sync is done, can i ignore that message about there being an update available....because it just downloaded the lastest stuff right?

chup · 10-09-2003, 04:08 AM

you could just ignore it yeah, and the emerge fluxbox option works

ElementNine · 10-09-2003, 04:13 AM

actually your not sposed to ignore that update you use "emerge -u system" it takes about 3 hours to do though

but it updates alot of stuff.

Robert0380 · 10-09-2003, 09:56 AM

cant get the bootstrap part to work

I think it's a problem with my memory or something tho because I was having problems compiling the kernel in Red Hat. It errors out after a while.

Also, if anyone has a nice make.conf file for an athlon (not athlon-xp) i'd like to see the CFLAGS used. As it stands i have -mcpu=i686 -march=i686. I know GSS 3.2 (or something) can handle -march=athlon or something but how do i know what version of gcc i'll have when it's done? I don't see how to specify.

crashmeister · 10-09-2003, 10:16 AM

You'll have gcc 3.2.3
See /etc/make.conf for further details about CFLAGS.There isn't much sense in getting crazy with the flags mcpu or march=your processor and -O2 or -O3 and -pipe are normally sufficient.
You'll might want to emerge ufed to setup the USE flags and mirrorselect for the best download speed early in the process.

Robert0380 · 10-09-2003, 11:41 AM

mirrorselect didnt workout too great but i have a good connection, at one point during emerge sync my connection was going down and it kept trying to find mirrors, turns out my school is a mirror, but ne way.

that clears up a me wanting to put -march=athlon. just have to go get a memory stick.