Mailing List Archive: CHOST variable

CHOST variable

Sep 10, 2005, 10:10 AM

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Folks,

It appears that our (ancient) installer installs an /etc/make.conf file
with CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin".

This is not optimal for Panther and Tiger systems, and should be
powerpc-apple-darwin[78] for those systems respectively.

This should be documented somewhere on our Wiki (who can do this?) and
it should eventually be initially set at the bootstrap during the
installation.

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Fabian Groffen
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Re: CHOST variable [ In reply to ]

ferringb at gentoo

Sep 10, 2005, 6:14 PM

Post #2 of 4 (2348 views)

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On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 07:10:41PM +0200, Grobian wrote:
> Folks,
>
> It appears that our (ancient) installer installs an /etc/make.conf file
> with CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin".
>
> This is not optimal for Panther and Tiger systems, and should be
> powerpc-apple-darwin[78] for those systems respectively.
>
> This should be documented somewhere on our Wiki (who can do this?) and
> it should eventually be initially set at the bootstrap during the
> installation.
Any possibility of creating a new installer?
Iirc, there are a couple other things that are screwy with it...
~harring

Re: CHOST variable [ In reply to ]

grobian at gentoo

Sep 10, 2005, 11:22 PM

Post #3 of 4 (2348 views)

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Brian Harring wrote:
> Any possibility of creating a new installer?
> Iirc, there are a couple other things that are screwy with it...

yeah... like installing a newer version of portage to prevent people
from reporting a bug on portage colliding with itself when upgrading ;)

I thought kito had/has access to the installer sources. How hard is it
to 'patch' the installer? I guess the biggest problem is getting rid of
metadistributions.org where the current installer is hosted...

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Re: CHOST variable [ In reply to ]

grobian at gentoo

Sep 11, 2005, 7:05 AM

Post #4 of 4 (2350 views)

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Grobian wrote:
> Folks,
>
> It appears that our (ancient) installer installs an /etc/make.conf file
> with CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin".
>
> This is not optimal for Panther and Tiger systems, and should be
> powerpc-apple-darwin[78] for those systems respectively.
>
> This should be documented somewhere on our Wiki (who can do this?)

I tried to master the wiki myself:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/index.php?title=HOWTO_Gentoo_on_MAC_OSX&diff=40171&oldid=39946

Feel free to change.

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