Installing Gentoo - The Developers Method - Stage1 and NPTL

3nd3r · n00b Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 38 Location: /dev/null

"if doing a new install"

make sure your USE="nptl ojbc"

and then use:

rm /etc/make.profile; ln -sf /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.2 /etc/make.profile; env-update && source /etc/profile; emerge patch; emerge -C linux-headers && USE="-* build bootstrap" emerge linux26-headers; emerge --oneshot --nodeps gcc; gcc-config 2; source /etc/profile; cd /usr/portage; scripts/bootstrap-cascade.sh; emerge system; emerge syslog-ng xinetd grub hotplug vixie-cron reiserfsprogs reiser4progs sysfs

Deranger · Veteran Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 1215

I don't see the point of your post. The oneliner in this tutorial works very well.

Commands shouldn't be chained with ; because it continues the oneliner if something fails. && continues only if previous command has finished without any errors.

DrKewp · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 2

shell_ramix · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Posts: 17 Location: Mexico

Today around 3 AM, I was installing a brand new system in a Toshiba Satellite Laptop, and I could realize that there is a new /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.3. So I had the crazy idea to use this instead of the 2004.2. Another think I done, was to put in my bootstrap this both Variables "nptl nptlonly"... Everything starts to build o.k., Even gcc... but a couple of things happened:

When the 3rd. proccess of the bootstrap cascade starts, when it starts to download glibc, it decides to download the 2.4. headers... then it starts compiling.....

And finaly, the last thing when i'm still in: glibc-2.3.4 can't compile because it never found on the work temp dir this: "build-i386-pc-linux-gnu-nptl".

Anyone knows what's wrong with this..? Maybe my mistake to use a profile that in fact I don't certainly know if is by now "stable enough" to build from there...

Thanks.!!!

cybe · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 67 Location: Finland

I just rebuilt my system using these instructions, and everything is noticably faster. Are binaries built with gcc 3.4 noticably faster than 3.3 ?

I thought my previous system should have been fairly good since I had gone NPTL and gcc 3.4 a while back and recompiled a whole lot.

P.s I was forced to rebuild after I again witnessed the power of rm -rf ! =( I had mounted my whole root in a folder I was working in, and forgot the whole thing.. Later I rm -rf:ed the folder and wondered why it felt so long. Felt like Homer Simpson.

Well, this isn´t too bad since I had most of my personal stuff backed up elsewhere and also qpkg -I started showing a little bit too much stuff I didn't recognize...

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UPDATE: Faster ? how? Well, right now for instance I´m emerging two things at the same time on (xorg, vsftpd)my laptop (athlon XP 1500) and if I open up a new screen, with bash, or login on a new VT, it´s almost instantanious, instead of a seconds/a few seconds delay...
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Deranger · Veteran Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 1215

I have good news!

It seems that bootstrap issues are finally solved. There's only two bootstrap-scripts (bootstrap.sh & bootstrap-macos.sh) in /usr/portage/scripts/ (yes, I even synced couple of times to see if that's possible

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It's totally new, modification time about 12 hours ago.

ali3nx · Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:45 pm Post subject:

thanks for the heads up

I'll change it up after coffee =]
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ali3nx · Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 8:55 pm Post subject:

well it would seem that there can only be 0ne

Servax · n00b Joined: 15 Aug 2004 Posts: 44

Can someone please tell me the make.conf?

Also is there any other place where I can get the config for the kernel?
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ali3nx · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 2:00 am Post subject:

ConVicTioN · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:41 pm Post subject:

In your /etc/make.conf the var input line is not closed is this a typo?

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# Bootstrap only USE
#
USE="nptl objc gcj f77 erandom pic
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slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

I'm pretty sure that's a typo. If you try to emerge anything it'll very likely give you errors.

ryker · Guru Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 412 Location: Portage, IN

ali3nx · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:23 am Post subject:

cojo · n00b Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 5

configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

when configuring libart_lgpl-2.3.16 to compile.

You can access config.log at
is this ok?? ln -sf /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.2 /etc/make.profile

or it must be ln -sf /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.2/gcc34/2.6/ /etc/make.profile

Watchoo · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:10 pm Post subject: Re: fail sanity check

Deranger · Veteran Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 1215

Did you merge linux26-headers with USE="-* build bootstrap"? That should fix sanity errors. However I haven't never got that error. Yeah, non ~x86 is lame

cojo · n00b Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 5

rm /etc/make.profile && ln -sf /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.2 /etc/make.profile && env-update && source /etc/profile && emerge -C linux-headers && USE="-* build bootstrap" emerge linux26-headers && cd /usr/portage && scripts/bootstrap.sh && emerge system && emerge syslog-ng xinetd grub hotplug coldplug vixie-cron reiserfsprogs reiser4progs sysfsutils udev && emerge --nodeps acpid ntp && rc-update add syslog-ng default && rc-update add net.eth0 default && rc-update add vixie-cron default && rc-update add xinetd default && rc-update add sshd default && rc-update add hotplug default && rc-update add coldplug default && rc-update add acpid default

lis this ok?? ln -sf /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.2 /etc/make.profile

or it must be ln -sf /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.2/gcc34/2.6/ /etc/make.profile

the virtuals is in 2.6 directory

Watchoo · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:50 pm Post subject:

cojo · n00b Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 5

I think the problem are the linux-headers 2.6.8.1-r1.
with the 2.6.8.1 no problem.

Watchoo · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:24 pm Post subject:

Dunska · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 1:18 am Post subject:

I had the sanity check issue as well with the system I am just building using ~x86.

The fix for me was to "emerge --oneshot --nodeps gcc gcc-config" to get gcc 3.4.2 before running the boostrap script. I also needed to manually set gcc 3.4.2 as the default compiler with "gcc-config 2" as it was not set automatically. After that, all was fine. EDIT: Remember to "env-update && source /etc/profile" after emerging gcc.

I also just noticed that /etc/conf.d/rc has now changed. There is no longer the "RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP" setting. It looks like it has been replaced by "RC_DEVICES" which can be set to "auto", "devfs", "udev" or "static". I set it to "udev".

Servax · n00b Joined: 15 Aug 2004 Posts: 44

So do we do emerge --nodeps --oneshot gcc && gcc-config etc etc... then run bootstrap.sh?

Btw, anyone know why they removed bootstrap-cascade.sh?
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Dunska · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:12 am Post subject:

Yeah, I did each command in the "one-liner" individually. Just before running "scripts/bootstrap.sh" I ran

Servax · n00b Joined: 15 Aug 2004 Posts: 44

gcc-config 2 does not work for me, it just gives me a list of what I can do...
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