On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 10:20:48AM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote >> On 12/18/2017 10:00 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: >> > >> > 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. >> >> This silently disappeared some time ago. It's set in the profiles now; >> for example, the file "profiles/arch/amd64/make.defaults" sets >> >> CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" > > Thanks. That's good to know. This could've used a brief news item to > avoid scaring people. I'll file a documentation bug because > usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example still shows an explicit CHOST > setting line. While I'm at it, I'll ask them to mention "-march=native" > in CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS.
CHOST is still a valid setting in make.conf, so removing it from the example is not necessary. Setting CHOST is still necessary for archs like x86, on which you have i486, i586 and i686 variants.
