<p>Now that you have a working copy of the Portage tree, people using stage1 to

<p>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 <font class="path">/etc/make.conf</font>.  In this file, you should set your <font class="code">USE</font> flags, which specify optional functionality that you would like to be built into packages; generally, the defaults (an <font class="emphasis">empty</font> 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 <a href="http://www.gentoo.org/doc/use-howto.html">here</a>.</p>

install will need to bootstrap their Gentoo Linux system as follows.  First

edit the file <font class="path">/etc/make.conf</font>.  In this file, you should set your

<p>You also should set appropriate <font class="code">CHOST</font>, <font class="code"> CFLAGS</font> and <font class="code">CXXFLAGS</font> 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'.</p>

<font class="code">USE</font> flags, which specify optional functionality that you would like to

be built into packages; generally, the defaults (an <font class="emphasis">empty</font> or unset USE

<p>If necessary, you can also set proxy information here if you are behind a firewall.</p>

variable) are fine.  You also should set appropriate <font class="code">CHOST</font>, <font class="code">

CFLAGS</font> and <font class="code">CXXFLAGS</font> 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.  </p>

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