alt.os.linux - Gentoo Compile Options

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Gentoo Compile Options

Xanadu

2002-07-29, 8:25 am

Hey!

Since there doesn't seem to be a gentoo specific group, I hope someone
here can answer this.

I'm looking into way to optimize compiling more than already is (if that's
een possible). Here ar the options for make that I currently use:

CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"

I'm sure there's other things I can add to that. I DO understand that the
more options, generly the longer teh compile time. That's not really a
factor. This isn't a "production box", just a personal workstation.

So I'm just wondering if there's anything else I can through in there to
hopefully speed things up even more.

~~~

I will say that this dumpy P-233 runs as fast or faster (in SOME things)
then my PIII-650 running MDK at home. (obviously only SOME things,
compiles and such go MUCH faster at home as do my SETI units... :-) ).

Gentoo is the way to go. I'm setting up this machine to act as a temp
Network Master Server in my machine's absence so I can put Gentoo on it in
place of MDK.

moonie

2002-07-29, 11:25 am

Xanadu wrote:

> Hey!
>
> Since there doesn't seem to be a gentoo specific group, I hope someone
> here can answer this.
>
> I'm looking into way to optimize compiling more than already is (if that's
> een possible). Here ar the options for make that I currently use:
>
> CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
>
> I'm sure there's other things I can add to that. I DO understand that the
> more options, generly the longer teh compile time. That's not really a
> factor. This isn't a "production box", just a personal workstation.
>
> So I'm just wondering if there's anything else I can through in there to
> hopefully speed things up even more.
>
> ~~~
>
> I will say that this dumpy P-233 runs as fast or faster (in SOME things)
> then my PIII-650 running MDK at home. (obviously only SOME things,
> compiles and such go MUCH faster at home as do my SETI units... :-) ).
>
> Gentoo is the way to go. I'm setting up this machine to act as a temp
> Network Master Server in my machine's absence so I can put Gentoo on it in
> place of MDK.

I believe compiling everything for i686 may not be the level you want a
P-233 is a i586, P-II and P-III's are i686 (and athlon works fine at i686).
There may not be a NG for Gentoo, but there is a chat room on
irc.openprojects.net Lots of people there usually check out #gentoo
--
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Daniel Jensen

2002-07-29, 4:25 pm

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:11:56 -0400, Xanadu <xanadu@inorbit.com> wrote:

> Since there doesn't seem to be a gentoo specific group, I hope someone
> here can answer this.

There's alt.os.linux.gentoo, if your server has it. Then there are
lots of mailinglists. Check out www.gentoo.org.

> I'm looking into way to optimize compiling more than already is (if that's
> een possible). Here ar the options for make that I currently use:
>
> CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"

I would not recommend omptimizing any more than that. It could
seriously break your system. Besides, you won't gain much in
performance. I use -O2 and I'm fine with that.

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Daniel Jensen
(message (concat "mailto:" "%s@%s.%s") "daniel" "bigwalter" "net")

Xanadu

2002-07-30, 11:25 am

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:00:37 -0400, moonie wrote:

>
> I believe compiling everything for i686 may not be the level you want a
> P-233 is a i586, P-II and P-III's are i686 (and athlon works fine at
> i686). There may not be a NG for Gentoo, but there is a chat room on
> irc.openprojects.net Lots of people there usually check out #gentoo

Ya know, I didn't even notice that. THANK YOU or pointing that out, man.

Sven Heinecke

2002-07-30, 2:25 pm

Xanadu <xanadu@inorbit.com> wrote:
> Hey!
>
> Since there doesn't seem to be a gentoo specific group, I hope someone
> here can answer this.
>

BTW there is alt.os.linux.gentoo

Sven

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