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From: Randy Barlow <randy@×××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the CHOST variable
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:55:23
Message-Id: 4570B1D5.1080706@electronsweatshop.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Changing the CHOST variable by Randy Barlow
1 Randy Barlow wrote:
2 > So I am trying to bring my CHOST from i386-pc-linux-gnu to
3 > i686-pc-linux-gnu by following the guide at
4 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml. Well so far things
5 > aren't working out so well. The first step is to change the CHOST
6 > variable. I also went ahead and added nptl and nptlonly to my USE flags
7 > while I was editing /etc/make.conf. Then I ran the command
8 >
9 > # emerge -av1 binutils gcc glibc
10 >
11 > binutils seemed to have merged correctly, but the configure script for
12 > gcc seems to be having issues. The last few lines of output show:
13 >
14 > checking whether the C compiler (gcc -mtune=i686 -pipe -march=pentium3
15 > -O2 ) works... no
16 > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
17 > cannot create executables.
18 >
19 > I tried to manually call a g++ command on some code I have, and got the
20 > following error:
21 >
22 > g++: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory
23 >
24 > So my compiler is broke. Any pointers on how to fix this?
25
26 One thing I just thought of is that I could add the executables
27 installed by binutils to my $PATH so that it can find them to build the
28 new compiler - perhaps that will work?
29
30 --
31 Randy Barlow
32 http://www.electronsweatshop.com
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Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the CHOST variable Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>