On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 17:01 -0500, Ryan Sims wrote: > > I installed gentoo on a dual Opteron box this weekend, I've always done > > stage1 installs, but this time decided to try the recommeded stage3 method. > > I understand the concept of doing an "emerge -e world" in order to get the > > optimization of a stage1 install, and I've done this ( one time ) on the > > install I just completed. Can sombody explain why it's necessary/desirable > > to do this *twice*? > > > > What real difference does the second execution really make? > > > > As I understand it, the first time you recompile new toolchain with > your old toolchain, and then the 2nd time you're recompiling the > toolchain with the new toolchain, with the idea that the new toolchain > will compile/assemble/link/etc everything in a different way than the > old toolchain. > > Please correct if I'm wrong.
I would suggest 'emerge -uD gcc && emerge -e world'; This should recompile the new toolchain with the new toolchain and be considerably faster. Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
