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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: changing CHOST in stage3
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:55:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051124195503.4b3ed3b0@snowdrop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yu9k6eyos25.fsf@nyu.edu>

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On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:48:34 -0500 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
wrote:
| It surprises me that release engineering starts with a stage1 to get a
| stage3 and then we use this stage3 to build a stage1.  I mention this
| only out of curiosity; there is a stage3 with my desired CHOST and I
| expect to do all future installs starting with stage3 (I formerly used
| stage1).

Well... You need a reasonably complete system to build a toolchain,
hence the stage 3 seed. Building a toolchain with a different CHOST is
pretty close to cross-compiling, so the only way you can do it safely
is to start from scratch, hence building up from a stage 1.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Supreme Lord Gerbil Wrangler)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web             : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-24 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-22  2:08 changing CHOST in stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] default stage3) Matthew Cline
2005-11-22  6:06 ` Alexander Skwar
2005-11-22 11:33   ` Neil Bothwick
2005-11-22 22:11   ` Matthew Cline
2005-11-22 23:16     ` Matthias Langer
2005-11-23  0:52       ` Richard Fish
2005-11-23  5:55         ` Richard Fish
2005-11-23  5:57     ` Alexander Skwar
2005-11-24  1:24       ` Robin
2005-11-24  1:42         ` W.Kenworthy
2005-11-22 13:17 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-11-23 20:34   ` [gentoo-user] Re: changing CHOST in stage3 Allan Gottlieb
2005-11-24  4:58     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-11-24 17:48       ` Allan Gottlieb
2005-11-24 19:55         ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2005-11-25  3:30           ` Allan Gottlieb

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