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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:45 pm    Post subject: remerging gcc Reply with quote

Hello,

I installed Gentoo succesfully.
Would it be of any benefit to remerge the same version of gcc (compile it from scratch)?
Would there be some kind of speed improvement if I recompile it with the optimized settings for my cpu?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Too little information. If you just installed Gentoo and haven't done emerge -e world yet (with your CFLAGS) I'd do it. Or you could wait until package upgrades will take care of it for you.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jaglover wrote:
Too little information. If you just installed Gentoo and haven't done emerge -e world yet (with your CFLAGS) I'd do it. Or you could wait until package upgrades will take care of it for you.


First do "emerge -e system"
And then "emerge -e world"

(This will rebuild gcc glibc libtool binutils linux-headers twice, but it is good)
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 8:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ippipp wrote:

First do "emerge -e system"
And then "emerge -e world"

You might also consider that the marginal increase in performances this will provide is not worth rebuilding everything 2 times, 3 times and... even more, immediately.
If you stuck to stable arch for gcc, be aware that gcc-4.6 should go stable in a very near furture.
So, you might find wise to postpone all this work until then.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 8:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ippipp wrote:
Jaglover wrote:
Too little information. If you just installed Gentoo and haven't done emerge -e world yet (with your CFLAGS) I'd do it. Or you could wait until package upgrades will take care of it for you.


First do "emerge -e system"
And then "emerge -e world"

(This will rebuild gcc glibc libtool binutils linux-headers twice, but it is good)

This will not rebuild gcc only twice but... 6 times...
Each time you build gcc, gcc is compiled three times and it will be rebuilt for both system & world sets.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 9:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Forgive me for my 'newbie' questions but...

1. Why is it rebuild three times?

2. Has a compiled gcc from scratch any positive effect on the binaries it 'spits out' or will it only show an increase in compiling speed?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

diejengent wrote:
Forgive me for my 'newbie' questions but...

1. Why is it rebuild three times?

2. Has a compiled gcc from scratch any positive effect on the binaries it 'spits out' or will it only show an increase in compiling speed?



1. During single gcc package compile-install it will compile gcc three times. (initial, stage1 and stage2 (or something like that))

2. Both. (But also there may be negative effect or decrease on compiling speed in certain circumstances)
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

because gcc is father of tools, don't you think building it 2-3 times to make sure you will end with the tool that is use to produce binary actually work and produce valid binary. Not all distros have slots features to saved you from a dead gcc. The highest optimization can produce valid code that will produce invalid/unexpected results.

rebulding a gcc always have positive effect (stability or speed) when upgrading glibc, glibc (or you current libc version) is tied with gcc as gcc hack their header to add fix, optimizations or arch specific things. Just browse the forum to see how many users get lost by weird problem appears in their programs as they use a bork toolchain, generally after upgrading glibc.
As you have install gentoo, it's more than certain your glibc were update too in the process.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, how come I can't build quite a few packages with the latest ~gcc-4.6.3?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thistled wrote:
Well, how come I can't build quite a few packages with the latest ~gcc-4.6.3?

How comes ? Hmm... misfortune ?
From what I see here : https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=gcc-4.6 and here https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418383 there should normally be less than a few.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Thistled wrote:
Well, how come I can't build quite a few packages with the latest ~gcc-4.6.3?

How comes ? Hmm... misfortune ?
From what I see here : https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=gcc-4.6 and here https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418383 there should normally be less than a few.


Ahhhh, I see now. Thanks.
Funny though, I am encountering the same errors with some packages even with the stable 4.5.* series.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thistled wrote:
Funny though, I am encountering the same errors with some packages even with the stable 4.5.* series.

Perhaps something in your toolchain (make, binutils...) , or glibc being a bit outdated ?
Any ricing CFLAGs ?

Post output of emerge --info.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes re: toolchain.
I always rebuild binutils and libtool after a GCC upgade, and I also
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. /etc/profile

Now I am wondering if I should rebuild glibc to see if that fixes the problem.

All CFLAGS are default, i.e. -march=native
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sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r3
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.3 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.15-r2
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thistled wrote:
Funny though, I am encountering the same errors with some packages even with the stable 4.5.* series.

As far as I read from your emerge --info you do not get any gcc 4.5
Do you mean 4.4.7 ?
What is the latest gcc release you have used troublefree ?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 1:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

4.4.7 is the only version I can use.
Packages are failing with the latest stable 4.5.* and the latest unstable 4.6.* series.
I will see if the lack of "env-update" solves the problem.
Thanks for the tip to the GCC guide.
I always follow the guide to the letter (kind of lol)
it just looks like I missed out the env-update part.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 11:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ippipp wrote:
2. Both. (But also there may be negative effect or decrease on compiling speed in certain circumstances)


I checked the system tree by running emerge -p -e system.
It's going to take forever to compile all that.

And if there is a risk it could also have a negative effect on compiling (binaries), then why bother?
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