In the process of installing Gentoo on my G5. I emerge system, and it gets to the GCC compile and install. GCC compiles for a while, but emerge exits with an error stating that G5 was an invalid value for the mcpu switch in one of the source files (do you need to know which one?). Other source files in GCC have correctly compiled at this point. I've tried the usebinpkg tag to no avail. (I think I don't have PORTAGE_BINHOSTS configured correctly; I'll have to fix that problem...) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge gcc 2. Wait for error described above 3. Pull out hair Actual Results: The source is downloaded. The config file runs. GCC begins compiling. After a bit of a wait, the compile is halted due to the above error. Expected Results: Compiled and installed gcc and continued on its merry way to the next package. Running a DP G5/1.8GHz. Altivec enabled. (Do you really need the emerge info output? Let me know if you do.) I realize that G5 support is experimental at this point, but any insight you could give would be appreciated...
emerge info can now be found at http://cs.beloit.edu/~morgant/info.txt
Sorry; realized GCC 3.2 doesn't yet support PPC 970 processor optimization. Closed bug.
try the latest gcc 333-hammer snapshot in portage gcc-3.3.3_pre20040426 it is currently p.masked but will be put on ~ppc and ~ppc64 after a full test.
also be careful to observe the following derivtions on gentoo-ppc64 use: -mtune=g5 not -mcpu or you'll be in a world of hurt for your 64 bit toolchain.
