Re: [gentoo-user] Using Boinc under Gentoo

[Neil Isaac]

On 9/2/06, Shawn Haggett <podge@××××××××.com> wrote:
> Frank Jahn wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I have a strange behavior in my BOINC client.
> >
> > All projects tell me that the platform 'i386-pc-linux-gnu' was not found.
> >
> > I might add, that I am quite new to Gentoo (not Linux in general) and
> > just installed 2006.0
> >
> > Thanks in advance ;)
>
> What is your CHOST setting in /etc/make.conf? I would guess you would
> have a line such as: CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" in there. So boinc was
> built thinking your platform is only a 386. Unless this is really old
> hardware, you should probably update it to "i686-pc-linux-gnu". There's
> a big warning in my make.conf file though about not changing the setting
> unless you are doing a Stage 1 install. So you might need a complete
> rebuild of your system if you change it. Someone more knowledgeable on
> these things should be able to tell you what you need to do to change
> your CHOST setting.

I just had to change my CHOST yesterday and it worked out OK. To be
sure your system will boot, you will want to do an emerge -e system
and fully recompile your kernel (and reboot); you may also wish to
emerge -e world if you have time. You may also want to take this
opportunity to update gcc as well. Good luck.

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