On Wed 26 Mar 2014 01:17:14 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> (2) use tuples with loaded vendor fields to reduce the chance of collisions.
> e.g. having an ABI=amd64 system use i686-gentoo%multilib-linux-gnu instead
> of i686-pc-linux-gnu would defeat any automatic path searches.

this patch keeps the status quo.  although the status quo is broken, but we 
can sort that out independently.
-mike

--- profiles/arch/amd64/make.defaults	18 Jan 2014 01:03:24 -0000	1.21
+++ profiles/arch/amd64/make.defaults	27 Mar 2014 06:13:22 -0000
@@ -21,17 +21,17 @@ ABI="amd64"
 # 64bit specific settings.
 CFLAGS_amd64="-m64"
 LDFLAGS_amd64="-m elf_x86_64"
-CHOST_amd64="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
+CHOST_amd64="${CHOST}"
 
 # 32bit specific settings.
 CFLAGS_x86="-m32"
 LDFLAGS_x86="-m elf_i386"
-CHOST_x86="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
+CHOST_x86="i686-gentoo%multilib-linux-gnu"
 
 # 64-32bit specific settings.
 CFLAGS_x32="-mx32"
 LDFLAGS_x32="-m elf32_x86_64"
-CHOST_x32="x86_64-pc-linux-gnux32"
+CHOST_x32="x86_64-gentoo%multilib-linux-gnux32"
 
 # 2006/10/24 - Simon Stelling <blubb@gentoo.org>
 # They are masked, but we can enable them anyway for those who have