At Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:55:03 +0000 Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:48:34 -0500 Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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
