Bug 286119 – CHOST is now defined in the profile linked to by /etc/make.profile. Documentation on putting CHOST in /etc/make.conf is unnecessary

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org

[Description Rachel Greenham 2009-09-23 17:19:52 UTC]

In the section on setting up /etc/make.conf instructions are given to put a CHOST line in, and to make sure it's correct. (Associated with this, the make.conf supplied as default in the stage3 download has a default CHOST line.)

It turns out that these days CHOST is defined in /etc/make.profile; specifically the profile to which that is a symlink. Therefore the CHOST line in /etc/make.conf is unnecessary, as is the documentation about it.

The references to CHOST should be removed from both the handbook and the stage3 default /etc/make.conf; or at least have a mention that you can put it in if for some mad reason you need to override the profile's CHOST. Though /etc/make.conf.example is probably the place for that.

The current documentation doesn't *fail* in that the resulting system works; it's just unnecessary duplication (and might be more failure-prone as it may encourage some to fiddle with it when they shouldn't!)


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2009-10-18 07:40:21 UTC]

that's not really true.  there will always be a case for setting the CHOST in make.conf as it is impossible to have profiles for every possible CHOST variant.

[Comment 2 nm (RETIRED) 2009-11-30 08:48:08 UTC]

Will leave as-is per comment #1. Thanks for the suggestion, though.