It looks like fixing the /etc/make.profile symlink fixed my problem. I'm still a little nervous about whether I need to run any other commands in order to prevent my system going wrong after making this correction.
Jeff On Sunday 14 December 2008 09:48:47 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: > Progress: > > I've discovered that athlon64 is a valid gcc make flag, so I changed it > back. > > I've also discovered that the /etc/make.profile symlink was pointing at the > x86 default-linux profile set, not the amd64 profile. > > I'm attempting a recompile now with the symlink changed, and hopefully this > will fix my problems. I wonder if this latent error is not about to cost > me a whole bunch more though. Is there anything I should do with the > emerge command or any other command in order to correct this profile > problem? > > Thanks > > Jeff > > On Sunday 14 December 2008 09:17:22 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > Thanks, > > > > That only adds more questions. > > My environment is amd64. It appears to have downloaded the i586 binary. > > Surely this is incorrect? > > > > my make.conf file contains the line > > CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon-xp", which should trigger the 64 bit > > binaries to be downloaded and acted upon. > > > > The CFLAGS variable was previously set to "-O2 -pipe -march=athlon64", > > and I don't think that athlon64 is a valid gcc compile flag, but the > > response was the same with this set of CFLAGS variables too. > > > > Also,since I changed the CFLAGS variable, is there anything I need to do > > in compilation to correct any errors resulting from the original (I > > believe invalid) variable? > > > > Any suggestions gratefully received. > > > > Jeff > > > > On Saturday 13 December 2008 06:43:24 pm Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote: > > > 2008/12/13 Jeff Cranmer <jcranme...@earthlink.net> > > > > > > > Perhaps it would have done if I knew where the download page was. > > > > > > The file /usr/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11.ebuild > > > will disclose this information, and hints at > > > https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net/developer.html > > > > > > > > > Regards.
