On 04/27/11 13:29, Piergiorgio Beruto wrote:
>> But I fail to see a reason for crossdev not to work in Prefix, even if
>> I've not used crossdev myself. So IMO it just has To Be Done (tm).
> 
> Well, I've tried to have crossdev itself working in prefix and I
> succeeded, the big problem was to cross-build the glibc, then I didnt
> have the time to finish but maybe I could use some help?

Shouldn't glibc be the very first package crossdev does build?
What exactly is the problem?

>> The special use case for Prefix here IMO is the combination of
>> ROOT="/somewhere" with EPREFIX="" and non-Prefix profiles/keywords.
> Yes, crossdev already uses the ROOT variable to specify the
> installation path, I'm not yet very familiar with prefix related
> variables so it might only be a matter of studying...

Eventually you might try to build your packages within Prefix,
without cross-compiling first.

> For instance what you mean exactly by "non-Prefix profiles/keywords"?

I'm not familiar with crossdev, but I guess you need to set up the
"${ROOT}/etc/make.profile" symlink, pointing to something like
".../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/...", resulting in
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS like "x86 ~x86"

In Prefix, you set up "${ROOT}${EPREFIX}/etc/make.profile" pointing
to something like ".../usr/portage/profiles/prefix/...", so
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS is something like "~x86-interix".

The special case for your crossdev-usecase within Prefix is that EPREFIX
is empty for $host (as in $ROOT$EPREFIX), while not empty for $build.

> Yes, I'm already a crossdev user and I actually think it could be the
> tool I am looking for, possibly with some tweaks.

Have you also tried using crossdev on vanilla Gentoo Linux to build
your software?

>> Then I'd try to fix crossdev to work within Gentoo Prefix, trying
>> to get identical output as on the vanilla Gentoo Linux system.
> That's the difficult part :)

Show us the error messages, and you might get concrete help.

> Do you guys find this kind
> of development useful/challenging?

Definitively.

> In which case, have you got a rough
> idea about the effort in making a working prototype (your guess would
> be much better then mine)?

Unfortunately, not from me.

/haubi/
-- 
Michael Haubenwallner
Gentoo on a different level