With the stabilization of the nptl-only glibc-2.4, many users are finding out that they installed their systems with CHOST=i386-pc-linux-gnu, and now need to either mask the new glibc, or figure out how to change their CHOST.
I am not able to find any official guide on changing CHOST, and the information on the wiki and forums is, well, "confusing" at best. What I've basically been telling people is to: 1. update chost 2. run /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh 3. emerge -e system 4. emerge -e world But I don't have any great confidence that these instructions will work, and that someone won't end up needing to boot from their live CD to fix or re-install their systems, as I've never had to change CHOST myself. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/169894 So I really want to know what the official position is on CHOST changes, and whether the above instructions are reasonable. Obviously I'm looking specifically at i386->i686, and not i*86->x86_64. If we could get something in to GWN on this, that would be great. -Richard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
