Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Florian Philipp <f.philipp@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:13:11
Message-Id: 200706051705.59900.f.philipp@addcom.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 Am Dienstag 05 Juni 2007 16:30 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen:
2 > On Tuesday 05 June 2007 16:21:31 Florian Philipp wrote:
3 > > Am Dienstag 05 Juni 2007 15:32 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen:
4 > > > On Tuesday 05 June 2007 10:53:26 Florian Philipp wrote:
5 > > > > Please note that Gentoo needs a i486 to work.
6 > > >
7 > > > No, it doesn't. It needs at least an i486 CHOST to enable nptl. While
8 > > > nptl is faster that linuxthreads and thus should be preferred on
9 > > > systems that support it, it is not required in order to run Gentoo.
10 > >
11 > > According to this [1] glibc-2.4 does not support linuxthreads any longer.
12 > > Older versions are available through Portage, though.
13 >
14 > And newer versions. glibc-2.5 has support for linuxthreads too.
15
16 Do you suggest I edit that hint at [1]. Does that solve [2] as well or do you
17 need to do something like installing from stage1?
18
19 [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags#i386
20 [2] http://gentoo-wiki.com/NPTL

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Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>