| 1 |
On Monday 04 February 2008, James wrote: |
| 2 |
> If so, and I wanted to convert this machine to 64 bit Gentoo OS, |
| 3 |
> then I'd just edit the make.conf : |
| 4 |
> |
| 5 |
> CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" to |
| 6 |
> CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" |
| 7 |
> |
| 8 |
> and 'emerge -e world' |
| 9 |
|
| 10 |
Previous posts on this list indicate that there is no upgrade path from |
| 11 |
32 to 64 bit. |
| 12 |
|
| 13 |
The correct method is to reinstall. |
| 14 |
|
| 15 |
Apparently it's not as simple as "emerge -e world" as that would involve |
| 16 |
building a 64 bit toolchain and system libs with a 32 bit compiler, |
| 17 |
which doesn't work. If I have the details wrong, I'm sure someone will |
| 18 |
come along soon and correct me. |
| 19 |
|
| 20 |
-- |
| 21 |
Alan McKinnon |
| 22 |
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
| 23 |
-- |
| 24 |
gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list |
Archives