SOLVED: [tlug] Gentoo Linux Kernel Compile Trouble

[patrick.niessen@example.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Doughty [mailto:wyndigo@example.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:25 AM
> To: tlug@example.com
> Subject: Re: [tlug] Gentoo Linux Kernel Compile Trouble
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 03:29:15PM -0500, Stuart Luppescu wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 03:00, Ulrich Plate wrote:
> > 
> > > That's where your march=i686 is coming from, most likely. 'make 
> > > menuconfig', change the processor type to an appropriate 
> value and 
> > > recompile.
> > 
> > I think in Gentoo it's set in /etc/make.conf. For example, 
> mine says: 
> > CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
> > 
> 
> I doubt gentoo chose to subvert the kernel process 
> completely.  The setting in make.conf is by and large for 
> software built with the portage system. Even if they go so 
> far as to try to set some config defaults based on make.conf 
> a quick makemenu config _will_ fix things up nicely.
> 
> --Matt
> 
> 

Thanks!  Its running now.  I did not realise that I did a manual compile,
and that the Gentoo options as specified in make.conf were not used for the
kernel.  

So selecting pentium mmx under processor options in make menuconfig fixed
the problem.

I guess most gentoo users are using a newer PC for maximum performance, so
they not normally have a problem with the default kernel setting.

Patrick