[Linux] Journal.

During a recent Gentoo installation I accidentally changed the CHOST variable from i386-pc-linux-gnu to i686-pc-linux-gnu. Oops! Afterwards I was getting compilation errors on some packages when I try to update the system. I finally managed to salvage the system by following some advice from this discussion post. Basically what I needed to do was to rebuild the toolkit twice redundantly, then rebuild the world files with the newly built toolkit:

$ emerge glibc binutils gcc
$ emerge glibc binutils gcc
$ /sbin/fix_libtool_files.sh `gcc -dumpversion` --oldarch i386-pc-linux-gnu
$ emerge ccache # ccache needs to be rebuilt to use the new architecture
$ emerge xorg-x11 # this needs to be rebuilt first or groff would fail
$ emerge -e system
$ emerge -e world

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