Which CHOST?

[Al]

>
> Why did gentoo need to invent it?  And does it have any documentation?
>

I really can't answer why they did invent it. I guess it is specific
for the Gentoo/Prefix overlay, which is is still experimental. It is
used to keep the different kernels and platforms apart in the build
scripts.

There isn't a fullblown documentation yet:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/

Mac OS X on PPC and x86, Linux on x86, x86_64 and ia64, Solaris 10 on
Sparc, Sparc/64, x86 and x86_64, FreeBSD on x86, AIX on PPC, Interix
on x86, Windows on x86 (with the help of Interix) and HP-UX on PARISC
and ia64

Al

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