don't panic, it's my own fault :p
right.
Situation:
I have an old laptop (p133, 32MB, 1.4G HD, no cdrom), and was quite
happy to have managed to get gentoo on it. Using distcc, building
packages was somewhat bearable.
Why o why did I do this:
I thought I'd give building binary packages a try. I did not fancy the
idea of building gcc en glibc on the laptop again (it's been a while
since i did a emerge world -u), even tho I used distcc.(1)
So I built it on my Athlon. CFLAGS used to be "-march=athlon-tbird -O2
-pipe -fomit-frame-pointer", so I changed it to "-march=pentium -O2
-pipe -fomit-frame-pointer", which are the ones I used on the laptop.
'env-update' and 'source /etc/profile' to be sure the environment was up
to date and then 'emerge glibc gcc -B'. Then I rsynced the binary
packages to the laptop and did 'emerge gcc -uk'.
And then it went all wrong. No matter what I did, I ended up with an
'illegal instruction'. The laptop was as dead as a dodo.
And now I think I know why. I never bothered to look at the CHOST
setting on the athlon box. I still don't know *exactly* what it means or
does. (anyone care to explain?)
Or is it something else?
All this being said. How do I get a new glibc on the laptop? (4)
Any comments on anything are greatly appreciated.
thanks
nessie
(1)
I would have compiled everything by mounting the root over nfs on the
other box, but nfs was being a pain in the neck all of a sudden ("RPC:
Program not registered"(2), although I never changed anything. The
router has been a serious pain in the neck these last few days too, so
that might be it(3). *sigh*.)
Besides, building everything on the other box over nfs is not feasible
for all packages, especially the really big ones like xfree, because of
limited diskspace. If needed, I mount /var/tmp/portage over nfs on the
laptop. I then once tried mounting the root back on the other box, but
nfs doesn't seem to 'recursively' mount. bugger.(is there a way to make
it do that?)
(2)
The athlon box had nfs-utils-1.0.6 and the laptop had nfs-utils-1.0.3.
Could that be it?
(3)
The router(SMC Barricade 7004BR) acting funny might be because of a
possibly virus and worm infested winxp box which I have disconnected
from the network, but that did not fix it. Also, I may have done
one-too-many firmware upgrades. The damn thing won't downgrade.
(4)
I originally used slackware and/or redhat bootdisks to install gentoo.
So I have reiserfs + network support. Not being able to boot from cd is
a real pain, I know.
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