From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EfUPQ-0005BA-FF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 03:38:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAP3aE6i007661; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 03:36:14 GMT Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.140.230]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAP3V58w013813 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 03:31:06 GMT Received: from localhost.localdomain (ool-4578d690.dyn.optonline.net [69.120.214.144]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jAP3V4Ut026465 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 22:31:04 -0500 (EST) Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id D77FE5401B; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 22:30:59 -0500 (EST) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: changing CHOST in stage3 References: <20051122131727.0ce8e6ad@snowdrop.home> <20051124045807.0cf15319@snowdrop.home> <20051124195503.4b3ed3b0@snowdrop.home> From: Allan Gottlieb Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 22:30:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20051124195503.4b3ed3b0@snowdrop.home> (Ciaran McCreesh's message of "Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:55:03 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: 141481ea-df1b-46c2-a339-092963db68a4 X-Archives-Hash: 758f82340cc1fc294877aa914feff287 At Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:55:03 +0000 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:48:34 -0500 Allan Gottlieb > 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list