On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 18:39 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Here is what is in there right now.. apparently from the stage3 > pulled down during install a few days ago. > > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -pipe" > CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -pipe" > CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
Is there a reason to use i486 stage3? I think an i686 one might have been available and a better hit if your system is/was set up as an i686 before this? Well, not that it counts now, gotta go with what you have unpacked. > Looking at make.conf from an old backup I see: > > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" > CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" > CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" > > So trying that now. > > Haa finished up smoothly with those flags changed. > > Do you think I do something like `emerge -vuDN world' since everthing > was compiled up to now with the old flags shown above? The friendly gentoo devs have whole guide for this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml And, as you can see, it starts with the soothing words "Changing the CHOST is a big issue that can seriously screw up your system" ... I'd go through that guide first to get to a (hopefully) sane system, and continue with other emergings only then. -- Arttu V.