Allan Gottlieb wrote: > At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:32:00 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >>>The handbook suggests that with stage3, you can't tweak all the >>>settings. Can you change CFLAGS and then bootstrap gcc and glibc? >> >>You can tweak all you want with a stage3 except for CHOST. An >>"emerge -e world" will always actualize all of your tweaks. You can >>tweak your own stage3 if you build it yourself with catalyst. > > > I see. If the compiler source changes (say a better optimization), > you need to compile it twice; but if we just change flags, compiling > once is sufficient. > > It appears the handbook is misleading in describing the differences > between the stages. > > allan
Can you point out which part of the handbook is misleading? This part about the CHOST seems pretty clear to me: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5#doc_chap5_sect2 Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
