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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] crossdev & ports questions
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:10:11
Message-Id: 201009201600.25912.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-embedded] crossdev & ports questions by Joakim Tjernlund
1 On Monday, September 20, 2010 15:00:25 Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
2 > I am fiddling with crossdev again and I wonder if there a way to
3 > pass different configure options to gcc/binutils vs. glibc?
4 > Doing export EXTRA_ECONF="--with-cpu=e300c2" applies
5 > to all and glibc bombs with subarch not supported error.
6
7 you'd have to use per-package env manually:
8 /etc/portage/env/$CATEGORY/$PN
9
10 but crossdev likes to clobber this file for you. so i guess i should extend
11 crossdev with --env-xxx options so people can add their own.
12
13 > Second, there are not many PowerPC cpus in the ports section
14 > of glibc and not mine embedded one either. Is there any
15 > alternative ports pkg somewhere that supports more PowerPC
16 > cpus?
17
18 we take what glibc offers via their glibc-ports package. personally, i do 0
19 embedded powerpc work, so i dont know of any "alternatives" or such.
20
21 if they did exist though, the only way currently to get them transparently
22 added would be to make a big patch out of them and then use the user patch
23 interface (put patches into /etc/portage/patches/$CATEGORY/$P/).
24 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-embedded] crossdev & ports questions Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@×××××××××.se>
Re: [gentoo-embedded] crossdev & ports questions Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>