Michael, The changes you selected worked. I got mirrorselect compiled and ran it and got http ftp and rsync repos defined. I'm wondering have all of the gentoo mirrors got binaries?
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Fri, 24 May 2024, Michael wrote: > On Friday, 24 May 2024 09:57:36 BST Waldo Lemmer wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > > > -march=x86-64 and -mtune=generic will not speed up your OS installation. > > These flags tell compilers to produce binaries that can run on any AMD64 > > system and that aren't optimized for your specific system. > > > > These flags have no effect on binary packages, since those have already > > been compiled. > > You're right, those are the settings the binary packages have been built with > - my mistake, sorry! > > The CFLAGS on the client should/could be tuned to its own CPU with "- > march=native". The "... speeding up of the OS installation" I had mentioned > referred to downloading the binaries, rather than having to build them > locally. > > Anyway, the CFLAGS Jude posted are incorrect: > > CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -native" > > and his CPU_FLAGS_X86 are incomplete: > > CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2" > > Your links should hopefully help Jude to set the correct settings for this > system, before he continues with the Gentoo Handbook.
