Re: [gentoo-user] Re: changing CHOST in stage3

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

At Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:55:03 +0000 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> wrote:

> 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.

Thank you for this clear explanation.
allan
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