On Thursday, August 06, 2015 7:17:56 PM Mick wrote: > On Thursday 06 Aug 2015 09:10:51 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 03:59:44 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > > 1-Distrowatch is what lead me to believe I could do something I wished > > > to do. > > > > Is it DistroWatch that led you to believe that what you wanted wasn't > > the default to start with? > > > > > e.g. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Base > > > discusses use of mirrorselect, before it directs to start chroot. In > > > the context of a non-Gentoo boot (as offered in the alternative boot > > > instructions) to get to stage 4, how exactly is mirrorselect to be > > > found? > > > > Mirrorselect is optional, just pick a mrror based on geographical > > location. > > > > > Re progress: I'm at the point of running emerge --ask > > > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources, but it quits if I say no, and fails emerging > > > sys-devel/bc-1.06.95-r1 (emake AR="$(tc-getAR)") if I say yes. :-( > > > > > > http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/config.txt > > > > Which clearly says ccache not found. That implies you have added ccache > > to FEATURES but not installed the ccache package. I know, I did the same > > thing last week. > > Probably O/T but why do you need ccache, unless you are rebuilding packages on > a regular basis, e.g. for testing? > >
I don't know how true this is, but I remember reading on some ccache faq that I can't find now that it should work even with new versions, as long as the files being compiled have not changed. In my tests, trying along with distcc it just slowed things down even with the same package. -- Fernando Rodriguez
