cannot find i686-pc-linux-gnu when trying to bootstrap

jza

I'm attempting a stage 1 install. I first started doing it using the regular installation as stated by the handbook and then using the developer's method ala the tutorial, which is what I have always done in the past. Anyway,
I changed the CHOST to i686-... for optimal performance. I then re-emerged glibc, binutils, and attempted to re-emerge gcc, but got the following errors:

configure:4415: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-RCC
configure:4444: result: no
configure:4415: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-RCC
configure:4444: result: no

I really don't know what elsse to try at this point (except going back to i386 in CHOST).

here is my make.conf if that helps:

didymos · Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 12:03 am Post subject:

Did you re-start the install completely clean, or was there stuff from before left on your system? You don't need to do stage 1. Just make sure the stage 3 tarball is stage3-i686-2006.0.tar.bz2. Of course, if you just want to do stage 1, same thing applies: start clean, get the i686 tarball. Hopefully, you have separate partitions, so you can easily save any configs you want to, say, /home then format the partitions the OS will need (e.g. /usr, /boot, /, etc. There're all sorts of partitioning schemes you could use. At the least, I'd make /home a separate partition).
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jza · Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 5:11 pm Post subject:

this is a new installation. What do you mean by getting the 686 tarball? I only see x86 tarballs which come with the i386 line by default in make.conf.
Thanks

didymos · Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 1:25 am Post subject:

Here's what I mean:
http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/x86/2006.0/stages/stage3-i686-2006.0.tar.bz2
http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/x86/2006.0/stages/stage3-i686-2006.0.tar.bz2.DIGESTS
http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/x86/2006.0/stages/stage3-i686-2006.0.tar.bz2.asc
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didymos · Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 1:57 am Post subject:

I'd forgotten about the stage1 not being CPU specific. In any case, you need to start clean, and set the CHOST before you do anything else other than partitioning,formatting, and unpacking the tarball (you probably already have the minimal live CD, but if it's possible, you might want to burn a copy of the latest version). I mean, you can mount the cleaned filesystems, set the date, and chroot into the new environment if you want, just have make.conf set up before you run env-update and sync portage.
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jza · Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 7:27 pm Post subject:

i just went back and read the docs and realized stage 1 installs are no longer supported. I also read about all of the circular dependency issues from reading the stage1/3 stuff from the Jackass project. I guess I'll just do a stage 3 install then. Should be fine. Thanks for your help

didymos · Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:04 am Post subject:

Yeah, stage 1/3 works fine. I did stage 1 ages ago, but I recently rebuilt everything after switching to the 2006 profile and moving to glibc2.4 plus GCC-4 and changing a bunch of other stuff like prelinking, modular X, etc. I didn't even need to reboot until I eventually built a new kernel a couple weeks later.
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