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nissarin
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 Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:59 pm Post subject: Any thoughts on EKOPath 4 ? |
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This.
It's supposedly "Compatible with GNU/gcc toolchain", perhaps it would be possible to compile some libraries/programs with it ? |
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Looks like there's a functional ebuild for this in the xarthisius overlay.
I'm not crazy enough to try dropping it in for gcc at this point, but I'm sure there's someone out there who will  |
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| I'm not thinking in wipping out gcc but for some project I have it could make a quite a big diference... |
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BonezTheGoon
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I would sure like to see some development with it. Seems promising. What I'd like to see most of all is a benchmark comparing an optimized Gentoo GCC instance instead of an Ubuntu stock GCC instance. Options, choices, freedoms, these are good things, IMO.
Thanks for the link!
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Wow, do they have a bunch of third graders doing their writing? The opening sentence:
| Quote: | | Within the free software world, GCC has long been the dominant compiler with it being backed by the Free Software Foundation, it being the most well developed free compiler suite, and is a feature rich offering that is put out under the GNU GPLv3. |
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| richk449 wrote: | Wow, do they have a bunch of third graders doing their writing? The opening sentence:
| Quote: | | Within the free software world, GCC has long been the dominant compiler with it being backed by the Free Software Foundation, it being the most well developed free compiler suite, and is a feature rich offering that is put out under the GNU GPLv3. |
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Well, it's phoronix. Can't expect great quality there, but I'm sure, once it's officially announced, there'll be better ressources to read up on.
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Boo you for not searching, already made a thread for it here 
//mighty mod to the merge?
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| richk449 wrote: | | Wow, do they have a bunch of third graders doing their writing?] |
Yes.
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| avx wrote: | Boo you for not searching, already made a thread for it here
//mighty mod to the merge? |
Your wish is granted
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Moved from Gentoo Chat to Off the Wall.
Has anybody used these compilers?
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| richk449 wrote: | Wow, do they have a bunch of third graders doing their writing? The opening sentence:
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I wonder how intelligent you sound when writing in Swedish. Bork, bork, bork.  |
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OK. If I want to be crazy and try it as main compiler...
How should I do that?
I know it's craziness etc. etc. - just asking.
I use paludis, but that should be no problem imho. |
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| cruzki123 wrote: | | I'm not thinking in wipping out gcc but for some project I have it could make a quite a big diference... |
It'd be nice if there was a way to specify per-package which compiler to use. Then it'd be a lot easier to test new things like this.
Does this capability exist in Portage? I (obviously) haven't looked... |
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| I'm pretty sure you can use package variables ( e.g. package name ) in configuration script, where you specify compilers to use. |
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It is possible to use it on a per package basis,
| Code: | | CC=pathcc CXX=pathCC emerge <pkg> |
if pathcc and pathCC are in your PATH, otherwise prepend full path.
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I was thinking about playing with /etc/portage/env/* - modifying CHOST/CFLAGS.
Anyway afaik not all components were released (open sourced) yet so I'll wait for the moment (and for some 'matured' ebuilds).
Btw.. it's just me or developers are not very interested in this ? |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:06 pm Post subject: Per Package |
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| I believe there was some support in portage a while ago for per package alternate compiler support, for instance some packages can be built with icc, while other supported ccc (compaq compiler for alpha) etc... Most of these compilers have relatively poor compatibility with gcc, so not everything builds but on their respective platforms the resulting code can be a lot quicker and is well worth it for certain performance critical tasks. |
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| xming wrote: | It is possible to use it on a per package basis,
| Code: | | CC=pathcc CXX=pathCC emerge <pkg> |
if pathcc and pathCC are in your PATH, otherwise prepend full path. |
While that should work, I was hoping for something a little more elegant, along the lines of /etc/portage/package.use; though /etc/portage/env/* might be sufficient as a general-purpose approach if it's not considered a good idea to bake compiler selection into portage as something like /etc/portage/package.compiler would require. |
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http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_ICC_and_Portage
That should be easily adaptable to EKOPath, ie supporting package.gcc/package.eko4(or something).
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 6:42 pm Post subject: Here Go's Nothing |
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| Well, I backed up my system and am now in the process of reinstalling Gentoo from scratch with ekopath's pathcc. I symlinked /usr/bin/gcc and /usr/bin/as to path{cc,as} and so far the kernel compilation seems to be going well. I'll be sure to keep this post (or newer ones) updated. |
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Is there a short explanation as to why you're doing this EKOpath stuff other than tinkering and trying new stuff out? Does EKOpath have some advantage over GCC?
I'm just curious.
EDIT: OK, I did some googling and it seems like EKOpath is a better compiler focusing on performance etc.. Seems a good enough reason for me.
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