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On Tuesday 05 June 2007 17:05:54 Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> > > > > Please note that Gentoo needs a i486 to work. |
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> > > > No, it doesn't. It needs at least an i486 CHOST to enable nptl. While |
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> > > > nptl is faster that linuxthreads and thus should be preferred on |
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> > > > systems that support it, it is not required in order to run Gentoo. |
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> > > According to this [1] glibc-2.4 does not support linuxthreads any |
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> > > longer. Older versions are available through Portage, though. |
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> > And newer versions. glibc-2.5 has support for linuxthreads too. |
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> Do you suggest I edit that hint at [1]. Does that solve [2] as well or do |
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> you need to do something like installing from stage1? |
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To be honest I don't really care enough to even look at the wiki. It does look |
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like there are no 2007.0 stages with an i386 CHOST (probably because so few |
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people actually want to install Gentoo on an real 386). |
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So either you'd have to use stage 1 from 2007.0 (not supported) or stage3-x86 |
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from 2006.1 (still supported). But the default-linux/x86/no-nptl profile is |
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still stable and glibc-2.5 is unmasked on it so the point still stands until |
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that profile becomes deprecated (and I doubt that will happen anytime soon). |
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Bo Andresen |
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