[Fwd: Re: Gentoo/Alpha (was: Fw: Latest RH for AXP?)]

I'm forwarding Will's message from axp-list below for the benefit
of gentoo-alpha.  I hope no one minds.

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----- Forwarded message from Will Woods <[email protected]> -----

> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:44:49 -0400
> From: Will Woods <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Gentoo/Alpha (was: Fw: Latest RH for AXP?)
> To: [email protected]
> List-Id: Linux and Red Hat on Alpha processors <axp-list.redhat.com>
> 
> Damien Dye wrote:
> 
> >>>when did they release another rc stage 1 ?
> 
> Finished building it yesterday. It will appear on the gentoo mirrors 
> soon (in experimental/alpha/stages).
> 
> >would be nice if there was an alpha page like there is for all other 
> >popular
> >platforms.
> 
> If you mean the install docs: they're here:
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-alpha-install.xml
> 
> They just aren't linked from the front page yet. Once we build a new 
> liveCD (should happen this week) and get some people to look over the 
> install docs, they will be there.
> 
> >may be sysV boot scripts instead of bsd style also ( as an option).
> 
> Well, that's your preference, but gentoo actually has more of a "soft 
> runlevel" system. Basically you have an arbitrary number of runlevels 
> with names like "default", "boot", "nonetwork", "offline", or whatever 
> you like, and you can switch between them at will. Also, the init 
> scripts have knowledge of their dependencies, so they start/stop 
> themselves in the right order automatically. You can read more about it 
> here:
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rc-scripts.xml
> 
> >>This statement makes no sense, propolice isnt a dependency or requirement
> >>by any package in our portage tree, its just a patch to gcc.
> >
> >portage would not let me build packages ( testing gcc works no)
> 
> That's strange. What makes you think it's propolice that's the problem? 
> It works fine for me - I'm typing this mail in Mozilla 1.4, running on 
> an XP1000, and the entire system was compiled with that gcc..
> 
> >>No ebuilds _require_ propolice, And never have. Its entirely optional.
> >
> >maybe some documenation telling users where to turn off that requirement.
> 
> What would be the point of removing the patch? To the best of my 
> knowledge it's disabled by default. You can enable it by putting 
> "-fstack-protector" in CFLAGS if you want/need to compile your system 
> with it.
> 
> >( if there is it is hard to find may be a search engine on the site!)
> 
> try using "site:gentoo.org" in a google search.. it works quite nicely.
> 
> >I do also read the ebuilds for some gentoo packages as to see what is being
> >patched and configured in cetain packages.
> >Am no dising  gentoo it is fine on my x86 pc's but it just looked as alpha
> >was a one off port @ rc1.
> 
> Yeah, rc1 was done half a year ago - things have changed a lot since 
> then. We also lost the lead of the port, so we had to redo building 
> stages and liveCDs on our own. But at this point it's stable enough for 
> me (and quite a few others!) to use it as my desktop machine.
> 
> -will
> 
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