I've gotten a couple emails already asking why I removed LTO support from GCC today.

Short version: I didn't. It is now unconditionally enabled (again). Enjoy.

Ever have a package that installs HTML documentation into /usr/share/doc that you want to create a local bookmark to? For example, I find it useful to keep the quick reference page of the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (app-doc/abs-guide) open in a tab, and because I sometimes need to work offline I want to link to the local copy instead of a web ( Read more... )

Finally back online. Between graduating from SIAST in the field of Geomatics Technology, moving to Yorkton, starting back at work for Altus, getting dumped into the position of senior field surveyor for Mosaic's new potash mine, and working 60 hours every week, I haven't had the time until now to even get my internet hooked up, never mind unpack ( Read more... )

I just bumped app-pda/barry in the tree to version 0.17.1. This was a major ebuild rewrite that should fix a bunch of outstanding issues. Unfortunately I won't have access to my Blackberry until I go back to work next month so I was unable to do much in the way of runtime testing ( Read more... )

My Thinkpad T61 has served me pretty well for the last couple of years but now it's time for something new. I shopped around a bit but ended up going back to Lenovo and customized a W510. It helped that right when I was trying to make a decision between brands they went on sale (coinciding with the release of Sandy Bridge?) and I got it for half ( Read more... )

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Deep in the bosom of the gentle night ( Read more... )

Note to users of RTK GPS systems. Taking a check-shot two meters east of your base does not confirm your base coordinates are correct. It confirms you have successfully walked two meters east of your base.

As phajdan.jr mentioned ( Read more... )

Finally. I'm unmasking sys-devel/gcc-4.5.1 tomorrow. I recommend that everyone who has it installed already do a rebuild, as there have been some important patches added recently (see ChangeLog).

See my previous post for more info on upgrading.

As some have noticed, the weekend is over and we haven't unmasked GCC 4.5. Zorry alerted me to a bug that I forgot about (https://bugs.gentoo.org/341743) that breaks hardened bad and can be triggered in non-hardened with -fno-strict-overflow. A bug has been filed upstream.