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On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 17:11 -0500, Matthew Cline wrote: |
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> On 11/22/05, Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name> wrote: |
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> > Why? What do you expect to gain? |
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> The computer I am installing this on is an old Compaq laptop with a |
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> Cyrix MediaGX processor. Everything I have read suggests that this is |
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> equivalent to an i586. |
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> Am I wrong in thinking that the CHOST variable should reflect the kind |
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> of processor in the machine? Wouldn't leaving the CHOST at |
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> "i386-pc-linux-gnu" build unoptimized binaries? |
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> Matt |
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I'm not an expert, but this is just copied and pasted from the gentoo |
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handbook: |
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The CHOST variable declares the target build host for your system. This |
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variable should already be set to the correct value. Do not edit it as |
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that might break your system. If the CHOST variable does not look |
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correct to you, you might be using the wrong stage3 tarball. |
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Cheers, Matthias |
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