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From: n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my emerge -u?
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 07:17:15
Message-Id: 6776eb26-bd72-6495-45fd-66769b8c5f5e@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my emerge -u? by Neil Bothwick
1 On 2020-10-12 00:42, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 22:44:45 +0200, n952162 wrote:
3 >
4 >>> I don't know why it's written in such an opaque manner (a simple
5 >>> `if` would suffice), but it seems like this error is printed only if
6 >>> x86 is used and SSE2 is disabled, which doesn't make sense to me?
7 >>> Is SSE2 required for building/ running NodeJS on x86 machines?
8 >>>
9 >> But how can my CPU be mistaken for a 32-bit machine?
10 >>
11 >> /Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz/
12 > It's not your CPU type but the type of CPU you are building for. The key
13 > information from emerge --info is
14 >
15 > CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
16 >
17 > when it should be
18 >
19 > CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
20
21
22 !!! wow.  I'm dumbfounded.
23
24 This is one of the machines I've been trying to get updated for awhile. 
25 It seemed this time that I'd found the proper incantation, because it
26 got farther than before.  But I discover now  that I have NO saved
27 emerge output from a system*.out or world*.out file that has "Emerging"
28 lines in it (portage is very frugal with its unequivocal progress
29 markers).  Perhaps I have indeed used the wrong stage 3.
30
31 Thank you for the tip.