r/Gentoo • u/omgmyusernameistaken • 1d ago

Meme ARM system update

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Why on earth GCC is not a binary😅 Pinebook Pro so it'll take all night.. but still best OSnfor me

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u/givemeagooduns_un 1d ago

Likely because your USE flags for GCC differ from those that are packaged in the binhost; portage tells you this.

Or youre using 32 bit ARM, which has no binpkgs distributed by gentoo.

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u/omgmyusernameistaken 22h ago

Yes, my mistake that I didn't notice it when emerge -avuND.. there were more than 200 packages tough. It had lasted 7hours when I last checked. Not bad because I know this machine is a spud. For an example emerging thunderbird took 9hours before. Now it's binpkg

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u/ShardOfChaos 1d ago

I hate llvm updates. Recompiling takes too damn long.

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u/varsnef 1d ago

Yeah, and with abi_x86_32 it doubles the time to compile.

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u/immoloism 18h ago

https://bugs.gentoo.org/970177

If someone wants to tackle some or all the points in here, then Gentoo is at least interested in ending this issue users have too.

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u/JustYour_averageMan 1d ago

Try to implement FEATURES="ccache", using ccache will benefit yourself on a package update and recompiling in general, I've used ccache on Gentoo for like a month and it's GREAT.

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u/immoloism 18h ago

More to others to others reading this then you, as I'm sure you are aware.

ccache works optimally when you only enable it for large packages rather then all globally.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Ccache

(This article could benefit from a refresh from a user of ccache if anyone up to the challenge.)

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u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 1d ago

Sure its annoying but its also quite mesmerizing.

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u/Quiet-Dot-4187 19h ago

When was the last time you've updated? last week?

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u/omgmyusernameistaken 12h ago

On July. I purposely update this laptop infrequently. I don't use the laptop often. All my machines are running Gentoo only and this is just a hobby to keep the ARM system working. It's not a fast machine to use

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u/Quiet-Dot-4187 10h ago

I do the complete opposite of it, as I update every 1~2 days. I would recommend you to use ccache for the heavier packages, like gcc, to speed up compilation.