Hi, due to my installation fault half a year ago, I have to change CHOST from i386* to i686* to be able to install gcc-4.1 & Co. since a better CPU as i386* is needed. I am running an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+.
As discussed previously it was suggested to change CHOST and do a emerge -e system; emerge -e world then following the gcc-upgrade- and gentoo-upgrade-guide. I tried that (after doing a backup of my whole system), but failed as soon gcc was needed, cause the corrected CHOST implies, that there is gcc already there, which supports (at least by its name...) the "new" CPU. But my old ( == current, not upgraded) gcc is named after the wrong CHOST nameing (i386-pc-linux-gnu). Naturally none of the tools was able to find the "new" gcc -- or using the old one instead. The situation now is: To upgrade to the new gcc-4.1 I & Co. have to change CHOST in beforehand. After changing CHOST no compiler will be found and I will no longer be able to upgrade to gcc-4.1 & Co. Recursive doom ? My idea -- and I am completly unsure, whether this would word or make things even more worse -- is to install a stage-1 tarball (2006-1) over my current installation abd keeping track of possibly overwriting personlaized configurations and starting emergeing system and world after that. Would this work and lead to a "perfrect system" ;) again ??? Thank you very much an help in advance ! Kind regards, mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
