Hi, On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:53:54 +0530 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an underpowered system which runs mythtv. Machine architecture? > 1. On a i686 machine generated the binary packages using tips > from this list.. > [...] > 5. Almost at the end of the glibc emerge , 'Illegal instruction' > errors start appearing...sweet > > I understand that a stage3 tarball is essentially a binary upgrade. > But using this method I thought I could do an incremental upgrade. > > So what is wrong with this approach ? Nothing. It works just fine (I did this enough times before). You just probably didn't match the CFLAGS and/or MMX/SSE USE flags to the "underpowered system" but compiled your binaries for the faster architecture. -hwh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list