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2008/11/20 Ryan Tandy <tarpman@×××××.com>: |
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> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 04:31:38PM +0900, Daniel Stonier wrote: |
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>> But you end up with alot of cruft that way |
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> Look into INSTALL_MASK. It is true, though, that one of the things |
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> Gentoo people tend to spend quite a bit of time at is stripping down |
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> their images. :) |
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>> and the other problem is most ebuilds aren't set up to work with |
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>> cross-compiling out of the box (lots of bugs), so xmerge falls over |
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>> alot. |
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> I wouldn't say 'most'. Unfortunately a non-trivial chunk of the ones |
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> that don't cross compile cleanly are ones that lots of people like to |
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> have (notable examples include perl and python). On the other hand, |
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> once you have a sane base system up, most packages should cross compile |
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> with minimal trickery. |
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> If you're struggling to get a package to compile, you can always check |
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> http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/ and see if anyone has left a package |
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> for your target there. |
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Oh, cheers!...Thanks for the information. |
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Regards, |
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Daniel Stonier. |
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