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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST missing in no-multilib stage3 make.conf
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 20:26:03
Message-Id: CAJ0EP431usvxebM=00o6XoP9CsByHj7+GSAAf-N=j5=8bGC=Jg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST missing in no-multilib stage3 make.conf by Walter Dnes
1 On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 10:20:48AM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote
3 >> On 12/18/2017 10:00 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
4 >> >
5 >> > I tried a couple of different mirrors. No CHOST line. The example
6 >> > file usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example shows...
7 >> >
8 >> > ===========================
9 >> > CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
10 >> > ===========================
11 >> >
12 >> > I could insert that, but I wonder if anything else is screwed up.
13 >>
14 >> This silently disappeared some time ago. It's set in the profiles now;
15 >> for example, the file "profiles/arch/amd64/make.defaults" sets
16 >>
17 >> CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
18 >
19 > Thanks. That's good to know. This could've used a brief news item to
20 > avoid scaring people. I'll file a documentation bug because
21 > usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example still shows an explicit CHOST
22 > setting line. While I'm at it, I'll ask them to mention "-march=native"
23 > in CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS.
24
25 CHOST is still a valid setting in make.conf, so removing it from the
26 example is not necessary.
27
28 Setting CHOST is still necessary for archs like x86, on which you have
29 i486, i586 and i686 variants.