On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:15:00 +0100
Ronald Pijnacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> First of all, I am a bit confused on whether or not the K6 will run i686
> correctly. Some sources on the internet say yes, others no. 
> However, the LiveCD boots fine, so I thought all was OK.

No, the K6 is an i586.
See http://www.freehackers.org/gentoo/gccflags/flag_gcc3.html for safe CHOST and
CFLAGS settings.

> This surprised me a bit, since I expected the LiveCD to also run i686
> compiled binaries. Ergo: if it boots, it will also run after installing
> from the harddrive. No such luck, though.
> 
> Any comments?

I bet the LiveCD is compiled with "-mcpu=i686" and your system is compiled with
"-march=i686" - am I right ? :-)

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