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On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:48:34 -0500 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> |
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| It surprises me that release engineering starts with a stage1 to get a |
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| stage3 and then we use this stage3 to build a stage1. I mention this |
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| only out of curiosity; there is a stage3 with my desired CHOST and I |
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| expect to do all future installs starting with stage3 (I formerly used |
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| stage1). |
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Well... You need a reasonably complete system to build a toolchain, |
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hence the stage 3 seed. Building a toolchain with a different CHOST is |
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pretty close to cross-compiling, so the only way you can do it safely |
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is to start from scratch, hence building up from a stage 1. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Supreme Lord Gerbil Wrangler) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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