Gentoo and links

This is the first and *hopefully* only time I'll be making a post from links. As it turns out, compilers are crazy and C++ has some really shitty rules about library compatability. So in order to make our stuff compile, I need to use gcc 3.4, which can be a real pain in the ass to upgrade on a system like Slackware. That's why I'm using Gentoo right now, so that once I got the compiler upgraded from gcc 3.3, I could then re-compile the system no problem.

Turns out... it takes a really long time to do this. I'm currently waiting on the system recompile (and I only did an emerge -e system!). I'll probably recompile everything overnight tonight, but I'm a little worried that'll leave me stranded tomorrow. And once I get that done, I need to get some form of a window manager up and running. Egh....