Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Generic stage1 and glibc

[Andrew Gaffney]

John Eckhart wrote:
> I'm trying to build a generic stage1 using the stage3-x86-2006.1.tar.bz2
> as a seed and the 20070319 portage snapshot. I can get all the way up to
> the building of glibc (glibc-2.5 as per the portage snapshot), which
> fails with the following error:
>
>  * i386 CHOSTs are no longer supported.
>  * Chances are you don't actually want/need i386.
>  * Please read http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml
>
> !!! ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.5 failed.
>
>
> I wonder how the release team is producing the stage1's for 2007.0. Are
> they masking glibc-2.5 or have they moved the sub-architecture for
> stage1-x86 to something newer like i586?

There is a build problem with glibc-2.5 for the i386 CHOST. Rather than fix it 
(which would be a lot of work for virtually no benefit), the minimum supported 
CHOST has been changed to i486. Just set 'chost: i486-pc-linux-gnu' in your 
stage1.spec. Unless you're planning on installing on an actual 386, this will 
work fine for 486 and up.

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Andrew Gaffney                            http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer                                   Installer Project
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