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Old 07-18-2004, 02:04 PM   #1
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Please help. Gentoo: Emerge gentoo-dev-sources fails


this is my first time installing gentoo and im trying to emerge the 2.6 kernel sources gentoo-dev-sources. When i do i get this error.


Error: you are cross compiling
Please Use the '--host=" option

Error: Dev-libs/ucl-l.010r1 failed

Function econf, line 365, exitcode1
econf failed.



I have no clue what to do with this. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
 
Old 07-18-2004, 05:39 PM   #2
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make sure /etc/make.conf is setup properly
 
Old 07-18-2004, 09:16 PM   #3
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Quote:
Originally posted by Demonbane
make sure /etc/make.conf is setup properly
especially the CHOST variable in make.conf.
There is this line in the manpage of make.conf.

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CHOST This variable is passed by the ebuild scripts to the configure
step as --host=${CHOST}. This way you can force the build-host.
 
Old 07-19-2004, 11:44 AM   #4
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Ok got it going. much thanks guys. I had no idea where to even start.
 
  


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