[gentoo-dev] Re: [Fwd: [gentoo-admin] Building a second system]

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

John Nilsson <john@milsson.nu> writes:

> I would like to use my current athlon-xp optimized system to compile a
> base system for a 486. How do I go about it?
> I suppose I would have to keep an 486 optimized copy of glibc somewhere, how?
>
> It would be nice to have a more or less permanent setup so I can upgrade
> packages easily later on.

You could make all kinds of settings that are normally in
/etc/make.conf from the environment.  Then you write a script that
sets the variables and then calls emerge.

You could frob PGKDIR, for instance, then tell the 486 system to
fetch them from there.

I think you will have to change many variables, but if you are lucky,
most of them will default based on just one of them.  Then you tweak
that and off you go.

I'd start reading the source now...
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