Where, exactly, in make.conf does CPU_FLAGS_X86 belong?

jamtat · Apprentice Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 162

New to Gentoo. So I looked over news items after succeeding in getting a booting system. News item number 10 discusses a script for generating output that goes under the new flag CPU_FLAGS_X86=. Though the news item says nothing about where that CPU_FLAGS_X86= entry should go, it seems to me a safe inference that it belongs in /etc/portage/make.conf. Additionally, however, there is no directive about where in make.conf that line should go. So I need to ask for clarification here: is CPU_FLAGS_X86= supposed to be a separate item on a new line within that file, as shown at http://pisarenko.net/files/80211ac/make.conf ? Or does it go under USE= or in some other spot within that file? Clarifications wil be appreciated.

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 9334

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 9:13 pm Post subject:

jamtat,

make.conf sets the environment for emerge.
Its another environment varable. The order of entries in make.conf is not relevant to the meaning it conveys.

It can go anywhere.
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jamtat · Apprentice Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 162

Thanks for the clarifications, genstorm and NeddySeagoon. I thiink my only other question related to this is whether, if under USE=, there are some of the same flags that have been output by the Python program as belonging under CPU_FLAGS_X86=, those entries under USE= need to be removed?

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 9334

They won't have an effect any longer under USE, so they should be deleted, but wouldn't do any harm.