Now that you have a working copy of the Portage tree, people using stage1 to < install will need to bootstrap their Gentoo Linux system as follows. First < edit the file /etc/make.conf. In this file, you should set your < USE flags, which specify optional functionality that you would like to < be built into packages; generally, the defaults (an empty or unset USE < variable) are fine. You also should set appropriate CHOST, < CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS settings for the kind of system that you are < creating (commented examples can be found further down in the file.) If < necessary, you can also set proxy information here if you are behind a < firewall.
--- >Now that you have a working copy of the Portage tree, people using stage1 to install will need to bootstrap their Gentoo Linux system as follows. First edit the file /etc/make.conf. In this file, you should set your USE flags, which specify optional functionality that you would like to be built into packages; generally, the defaults (an empty or unset USE variable) are fine. The package 'gentoolkit' has a script called 'useflags' that can assist you. More information on USE flags can be found here.
> >You also should set appropriate CHOST, CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS settings for the kind of system that you are creating (commented examples can be found further down in the file.) Your best friend is 'man gcc' to figure out what additional CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS are available. Search for 'Optimization'.
> >If necessary, you can also set proxy information here if you are behind a firewall.