Changing the CHOST supported?

dE_logics · Advocate Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 2280 Location: $TERM

CHOSTs are like this --
x86_64-<string>-linux-gnu
For some reason, I need to change the <string> from pc to something else.

My question is, is this officially supported by Gentoo? Even though an article exists.
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pingtoo · Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 4:19 pm Post subject:

Your "article" link may be wrong, it point back to same as "some" forum post.

I have few questions about the "some" thread, so I will discuss over there.

dE_logics · Advocate Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 2280 Location: $TERM

Thanks for notifying. I've changed it.
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 5:54 pm Post subject:

The wiki page, or article, as it predates the wiki, was written when glibc dropped i386 support.
That was at glibc-2.2.

The method should still be valid. Rebuild order is important as CHOST is embedded all over the place.
The wrong order will break your toolchain.

You may want to quickpkg things before you start, so you have an 'undo'.
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Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

dE_logics · Advocate Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 2280 Location: $TERM

Hello, NeddySeagoon. Nice to hear from you again.

Yes, everything will be in chroot on a backup copy of the running machine. Only after success, it'll be replaced by the working machine.
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dE_logics · Advocate Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 2280 Location: $TERM

FYI this article works fine till date.
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dE_logics · Advocate Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 2280 Location: $TERM

This article still works.
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