Hi,

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:53:54 +0530 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have an underpowered system which runs mythtv.

Machine architecture?

> 1. On a i686 machine generated the binary packages using tips
>     from this list..
> [...]
> 5. Almost at the end of the glibc emerge , 'Illegal instruction'
>    errors start appearing...sweet
> 
> I understand that a stage3 tarball is essentially a binary upgrade.
> But using this method I thought I could do an incremental upgrade.
> 
> So what is wrong with this approach ?

Nothing. It works just fine (I did this enough times before). You just
probably didn't match the CFLAGS and/or MMX/SSE USE flags to the
"underpowered system" but compiled your binaries for the faster
architecture.

-hwh
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