New Install 13.0 or 17.0 profile for stage3?

[trumee]

Hello,

I am doing a new install and using stage3 from https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/. I changed to use 17.0 profile. Do i need to rebuild whole of stage3?

Thanks

[The Doctor]

Using the new profile is good future proofing in any case.

I would do an emerge -e world as soon as you reboot regardless.
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[GrimBandito]

Hi @trumee, I am also doing a new install of Gentoo.

My understanding from the news article which describes how to change the profile from 13.0 to 17.0 is that the new profile (17.0) makes changes to the compiler options to produce Position Independent Executables (PIE) by default. Therefore I assume it is necessary to rebuild gcc, binutils, glibc and finally do a complete system rebuild.

I would suggest that performing this step at an early stage of installation would be better than waiting and performing the full rebuild at a later stage. The plan would be to avoid having a system with both PIE and non-PIE code which may cause problems for the linker.

Having said the above I am left wondering why the 13.0 profiles are still being put into the downloads and the 17.0 profiles are not the default. More to the point, doing a fresh install should automatically put you on a 17.0 profile and your compiler should be producing PIE code by default. Perhaps the installation media requires additional work for this to be the case.

[The Doctor]

[GrimBandito]

Ok thanks for the correction Doc.