Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] GenOM (Gentoo on Openmoko)
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:58:53
Message-Id: 1225220329.28295.11.camel@hangover
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] GenOM (Gentoo on Openmoko) by Andreas Zuber
1 On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 17:40 +0100, Andreas Zuber wrote:
2 > > BAD Cross Compile support?
3 >
4 > I tried to cross compile several packages (gdm, gtkmm, xorg-server...).. It
5 > always failed somewhere. There was also a Problem that emerge said the
6 > package is masked for ~amd64, but i tried to compile packages for arm...
7
8 Sounds like the method. probably intermixing ~arch ebuilds with a stable
9 build host and or lucked out at one point and ran into a combo that did
10 not compile for you. Tip. -O is friend.
11
12 Anyway native versions of the bins for the OM can be found here
13 http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/embedded/openmoko/
14
15
16 > How would you call that? Good Cross Compile support?
17
18 "good" vs "bad" are quite different things. try not to confuse them. So
19 yeah cross-compiles always tend to quite a bit of voodoo and often send
20 people running away pulling hair out.
21
22 > > I've got shy of 900 pkgs for that exact CHOST all cross compiled.
23 > > Perl is about the only problem. But then perl does not really belong on
24 > > a phone either..
25 >
26 > Maybe you now say that the packages i try to compile do not belong on a phone
27 > too.. but this doesn't make it better.
28 >
29 > I'm not a specialist in writing ebuilds or make them cross compiling aware so
30 > i try another way to get gentoo on my freerunner.
31
32 Good luck.
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35 --
36 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
37 Gentoo Linux