[gentoo-user] glibc update and CHOST problem

[gentoo-user] glibc update and CHOST problem

[Neil Isaac]

I'm trying to upgrade to glibc-2.4-rc3 (in x86 stable) and get the
following error:

>>> Emerging (1 of 2) sys-libs/glibc-2.4-r3 to /
....
>>> checking glibc-linuxthreads-20060605.tar.bz2 ;-)
>>> checking glibc-powerpc-cpu-addon-v0.01.tgz ;-)
 * glibc-2.4 is nptl-only!
 * NPTL requires a CHOST of i486 or better

!!! ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.4-r3 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1555:   Called dyn_setup
  ebuild.sh, line 668:   Called pkg_setup
  glibc-2.4-r3.ebuild, line 1079:   Called die

!!! please add USE='nptl nptlonly' to make.conf
...

I do have nptl and nptlonly in USE (that message had a yellow star, so
I guess it's just a warning) but my CHOST is set to
CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" in make.conf. How do I correct this problem?

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Re: [gentoo-user] glibc update and CHOST problem

[Richard Fish]

On 8/31/06, Neil Isaac <isaac.neil@gmail.com> wrote:
> I do have nptl and nptlonly in USE (that message had a yellow star, so
> I guess it's just a warning) but my CHOST is set to
> CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" in make.conf. How do I correct this problem?

Assuming you are using a processor made in the last 10 years, just set
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu".  You *must* do an emerge -e world after
this, or you may very well break your system.  In fact, I would
recommend just following the gcc upgrade guide [1] and rebuild your
whole system with the new CHOST and gcc 4.1.

-Richard

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml
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