On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 17:11 -0500, Matthew Cline wrote: > On 11/22/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Why? What do you expect to gain? > > > > The computer I am installing this on is an old Compaq laptop with a > Cyrix MediaGX processor. Everything I have read suggests that this is > equivalent to an i586. > > Am I wrong in thinking that the CHOST variable should reflect the kind > of processor in the machine? Wouldn't leaving the CHOST at > "i386-pc-linux-gnu" build unoptimized binaries? > > > Matt >
I'm not an expert, but this is just copied and pasted from the gentoo handbook: The CHOST variable declares the target build host for your system. This variable should already be set to the correct value. Do not edit it as that might break your system. If the CHOST variable does not look correct to you, you might be using the wrong stage3 tarball. Cheers, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
