[gentoo-user] Using Boinc under Gentoo

[gentoo-user] Using Boinc under Gentoo

[Frank Jahn]

Hi all!

I have a strange behavior in my BOINC client.

All projects tell me that the platform 'i386-pc-linux-gnu' was not found.

I might add, that I am quite new to Gentoo (not Linux in general) and 
just installed 2006.0

Thanks in advance ;)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Using Boinc under Gentoo

[Shawn Haggett]

Frank Jahn wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I have a strange behavior in my BOINC client.
> 
> All projects tell me that the platform 'i386-pc-linux-gnu' was not found.
> 
> I might add, that I am quite new to Gentoo (not Linux in general) and
> just installed 2006.0
> 
> Thanks in advance ;)

What is your CHOST setting in /etc/make.conf? I would guess you would
have a line such as: CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" in there. So boinc was
built thinking your platform is only a 386. Unless this is really old
hardware, you should probably update it to "i686-pc-linux-gnu". There's
a big warning in my make.conf file though about not changing the setting
unless you are doing a Stage 1 install. So you might need a complete
rebuild of your system if you change it. Someone more knowledgeable on
these things should be able to tell you what you need to do to change
your CHOST setting.

Shawn
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Re: [gentoo-user] Using Boinc under Gentoo

[Neil Isaac]

On 9/2/06, Shawn Haggett <podge@podgeweb.com> wrote:
> Frank Jahn wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I have a strange behavior in my BOINC client.
> >
> > All projects tell me that the platform 'i386-pc-linux-gnu' was not found.
> >
> > I might add, that I am quite new to Gentoo (not Linux in general) and
> > just installed 2006.0
> >
> > Thanks in advance ;)
>
> What is your CHOST setting in /etc/make.conf? I would guess you would
> have a line such as: CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" in there. So boinc was
> built thinking your platform is only a 386. Unless this is really old
> hardware, you should probably update it to "i686-pc-linux-gnu". There's
> a big warning in my make.conf file though about not changing the setting
> unless you are doing a Stage 1 install. So you might need a complete
> rebuild of your system if you change it. Someone more knowledgeable on
> these things should be able to tell you what you need to do to change
> your CHOST setting.

I just had to change my CHOST yesterday and it worked out OK. To be
sure your system will boot, you will want to do an emerge -e system
and fully recompile your kernel (and reboot); you may also wish to
emerge -e world if you have time. You may also want to take this
opportunity to update gcc as well. Good luck.

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