When installing gentoo for the first time on a K6 CPU, the comments near CHOST in /etc/make.conf induce one to think the right value is i686 (after all, a k6 is greater than or equal to a Pentium Pro, right?), however, the right value is i586 (using i686 causes a SIGILL halfway throught the glibc build). Looking at the forums, I can see I'm not the only one to fall in this trap, and I just talked in IRC to someone else who also had the same problem. The comment should warn that K6 users should use i586, something like: # Note that K6 processors should use i586 here Users of more exotic processors might need a comment there too, if the equivalence is not obvious. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Look at /etc/make.conf in stage1-x86-1.4_rc4.tar.bz2
Added a comment to CHOST line.