Alan McKinnon schreef:
On Monday 04 February 2008, James wrote:
If so, and I wanted to convert this machine to 64 bit Gentoo OS,
then I'd just edit the make.conf :
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" to
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
and 'emerge -e world'
Previous posts on this list indicate that there is no upgrade path from
32 to 64 bit.
The correct method is to reinstall.
Apparently it's not as simple as "emerge -e world" as that would involve
building a 64 bit toolchain and system libs with a 32 bit compiler,
which doesn't work. If I have the details wrong, I'm sure someone will
come along soon and correct me.
Indeed reinstall is the best method of upgrading. I'm also not familiar
with details but apparently it is not as easy as changing CHOST en
remerge world.
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