default-1.0-gcc3 success

I did a fresh install after borking an upgrade atempt. I was able to
get gcc3.1 to bootstrap. I installed from cdrom, BTW. Here is a short
summary:

1) Bootstrap phase
Perl wouldn't compile. I had to unmask it, eg comment it out, in
package.mask. Then it compiled. Version perl5.6.1-r4, I think. 
My USE variables were set to the default or USE="" and my compiler
was set to -march=i686 -O6 

2) Emerge system
Everything compiled fine here. Once the system was installed, I added
many USE variables and changed my compiler to -march=athlon -O6. All
packages installed after this worked fine using athlon optimization.
At this point, I wanted to do, emrege -e world but was afraid ;-)

3) Xfree-4.2.0-r9
Wouldn't compile. I unmasked this in package.mask and I'm currently
compiling xfree-4.2.0-r11. I'll let you know how it goes. 

Anyway, thanks to all devlopers working on getting gcc-3.1 working.

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jack_morgan