How to Bootstap Gentoo 2005.0 & GCC 3.4.3

houmie · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 26

Hi There,

I was working all day to make this work,

It stops with the error message:

Sven Vermeulen · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:11 pm Post subject:

Try installing Gentoo the regular way (i.e. not using ~arch) and then convert your system once it is installed.

geoaxis · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:16 pm Post subject: Have you checked out this topic

Have you checked out this topic
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-314985-highlight-2005.html

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houmie · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 26

houmie · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 26

Bob P · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:45 pm Post subject:

man, you didn't get flamed.

boostrapping ~arch has always been considered risky business, and people who know better choose to avoid it. Sven and I are in voilent agreement (i look tough :evil:

) that the best way to get an ~arch toolkit is to start with an arch toolkit and then rebuilt it yourself.

the reason that i asked you what i asked you in that thread was because you were confusing everyone -- you were bootstrapping and asking questions about bootstrapping in a thread that involves building on a Stage 3 tarball. :!:

more than one person complained that your posts were confusing and that it wasn't clear to anyone what you were doing.

if you want to build an ~arch box while starting on an arch toolkit, you're welcome to rejoin that thread and receive our support. our only requirement is that you actually perform the installation using the method that is being discussed in the thread, so that you do not become confused, and so that you do not confuse everyone else.

one thing that it is important to keep in mind is that 2005.0 has only been out for about 24 hours. the official documentation is still having the finishing touches put on it, so it may be premature to try to perform a Stage 1 install on 2005.0 when the documentation still isn't finished. :idea:

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Bob P · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:49 pm Post subject:

barry · Apprentice Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 170 Location: UK

You could run the bootstrap twice.

On the first bootstrap use -march=pentium3 and make sure gcc, gcc-config and libstdc++-v3 are marked as ~x86 in package.keywords. This will upgrade gcc to version 3.4. Then run the bootstrap a second time, and use -march=pentium-m (or whatever), and this will bootstrap the system with gcc-3.4.

houmie · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 26

Well, I don't think the new documentation would solve my problem. Like I said before, as far as I understand Stage 1 and bootstraping is to set up Linux to the CPU and hardware architecture (with or without backward compatability).

Since pentium-m is not supported in GCC 3.3.5 the bootstraping is doomed to fail. But if I choose something just close enough to my hardware jsut to make it work, then I could have gone with Stage 2 in first place.

Unless there will be a guide how to implement and use GCC 3.4.3 in Stage 1.

houmie · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 26

Bob P · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:03 pm Post subject:

Duplicate Thread
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Bob P · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:05 pm Post subject:

barry · Apprentice Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 170 Location: UK

barry · Apprentice Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 170 Location: UK

The bootstrap script builds gcc, binutils and glibc (plus a few more things, but these are quick to compile). Bootstrapping twice will take a while, mainly beacuse of glibc, but I think the install guides all rebuild these twice anyway.

houmie · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 26

Hey Barry,

It sounds like a good solution to me (at least a solution)

I would like to make sure that I understood everything you said, since it takes a long time and messing it up is expensive.

1) Select pentium3 in make.conf
2) I follow the instructions until bootstrap.sh command
3) I enter these lines into package.keywords

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epimenides · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 4

I would like to install gentoo 2005.0 x86 form stage1 with the pentium-m flage in gcc 3.4

Should I wait until gcc 3.4 gets included into the standard x86 stage1 tarball (days, weeks, months ???), or will 2005.0 x86 stage1 always remain without the gcc 3.4?

Thanks!

barry · Apprentice Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 170 Location: UK

GCC 3.4 isn't in the 2005.0 stages, so you'll have to wait until at least 2005.1, which will be several months from now.

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HippieJoe · n00b Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 67

I followed this thread to get my own system working. From what I can figure it was the exact same issue of the gcc version with Pentium M processors:

My system:
Gateway 200ARC w/Pentium M 1700

Was using gcc 3.3.5 off the complete Live CD 2005.0.

make.conf:
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

With these settings I was getting the error about the CPU not being able to create executables. That is when I found this thread. Here are the exact steps I took to complete a stage1 install using gcc 3.4.3 - thus not loosing any performance advantages.

**My make.conf also includes: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"** - This is dangerous, include at own risk.

-Follow manual to bootstrap phase:
-Set CFLAGS to include: -march=pentium3
-Type: /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh
-Type: gcc-config -l
-Select the gcc version I want (3.4.3): gcc-config 5
-Change CFLAGS to include: -march=pentium-m
-Type: env-update
-Type: source/etc/profile
-Type: /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh

This bootstraped successfully. However, I am still emerging the system but am a couple dozen packages into it with no problem.

This is nothing different from what was posted above, just all at once. And like stated above, bootstrapping take a while. Hope you have some time on your hands.

HippieJoe

Edit:
I had trouble on the emerge -e system - openssl kept erroring out on line 125 with exit code 1. I couldn't figure it out, but I am trying the above steps again minus the ~x86 in the make.conf.