Beginning the install (AMD64 no-multilib). I downloaded stage3-amd64-nomultilib-20171215T184104Z.tar.bz2 and extracted. Here's make.conf...
========================================================================= # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically # built this stage. # Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more # detailed example. CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" # NOTE: This stage was built with the bindist Use flag enabled PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" # This sets the language of build output to English. # Please keep this setting intact when reporting bugs. LC_MESSAGES=C ========================================================================= I tried a couple of different mirrors. No CHOST line. The example file usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example shows... =========================== CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" =========================== I could insert that, but I wonder if anything else is screwed up. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
