compile error while building kernel

[Rance Hall]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Rance Hall <ranceh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:32 PM, walt <w41ter at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Rance Hall wrote:
>  >   > ...
>  >
>  > > im running an amd athlon64 processor but the i386 code.
>  >  >
>  >  > my march is athlon-mp  (the system translates my athlon64
>  >  > automatically to this in i386 mode)...
>  >
>  >  I've been too cheap to buy a 64-bit machine, so obviously I'm
>  >  making a blind guess here :o) but the words above make me uneasy.
>  >
>  >  If you're running 32-bit code, then your make.conf should not be
>  >  using 'athlon64' at all and thus it should not need translation,
>  >  right?  (I'm truly asking, not lecturing.)
>  >
>  >  Anyway, if your make.conf defines CPUTYPE or MACHINE_ARCH as
>  >  athlon64 just try changing it to K8 or athlon-mp or athlon and
>  >  see if anything changes.
>  >
>
>  I tried setting CPUTYPE=athlon-mp in make.conf and I still couldn't
>  buiild a kernel.
>
>  It seems something else is happening, but I sure dont know what it is.
>  nor why no one else has reported this problem yet.
>


I tried setting CPUTYPE=athlon-mp in make.conf and I still couldn't
buiild a kernel.

It seems something else is happening, but I sure dont know what it is.
nor why no one else has reported this problem yet.