mips architecture on a Pentium??

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Thu Oct 14 13:29:23 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 13:20 +0100, Wood David wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm up-to-date with the latest development tree as of last night (.610
> kernel) and have just noticed that my Pentium 4 laptop has the ARCH
> environmental variable set to mips!  Surely this can't be right?  To
> recompile my kernel I need to re-export this to i386.  I'm not sure what
> other software is going to get confused by this.  Equally, I'm not clear
> which component of Fedora to Bugzilla this against, if indeed I need to.

What is the ARCH variable, and what sets it? I've never seen it, and its
not set on my systems.

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