Dell C840 vs Gentoo vs GCC 3.4.4
Gentoo recently stablized GCC 3.4.4 within Portage. Since the GCC 3.4.x binaries are incompatible with 3.3.x, an upgrade of sorts is required. There are two methods to accomplish this upgrade: method one is to rebuild everything and method two is to rebuild only those libraries that the “revdep-rebuild” command thinks you really need to rebuild. Since I have a three year old laptop, I opted initially for the second method, only to find that the end result still left my machine with many, many packages that required GCC 3.3.
So I switched to method one, and finally, after close to a week of compiling, my laptop is 99% GCC 3.3.x free. It was actually more like a five day time span, of which, perhaps two full days was spent compiling. The remaining time was spent either idle (due to a failed compile) or not comiling at all since I was working (or playing games). Long story short; if you plan to rebuild a fully functional Gentoo-based desktop system on a 2GHz Pentium 4, expect to spend about two days compiling stuff.
Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:04
