Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Christopher Friedt <chrisfriedt@×××××.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o, wireless <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] gcc-4.6 / bionic
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 18:31:19
Message-Id: CAF4BF-TZA6GP15XcShfAETGXfM-mxRJvLR18t+YkAjwDc628GQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] gcc-4.6 / bionic by Mike Frysinger
1 Hi Mike,
2
3 I definitely will. It's a bit slow-going though because it's a spare-time
4 project.
5
6 If anyone on the list feels like helping out, feel free to get in touch :-)
7 I'm EST / Canada, and could collaborate real-time some weekday evenings.
8
9 ©
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11 Sent from my Android
12 On Dec 9, 2013 12:09 AM, "Mike Frysinger" <vapier@g.o> wrote:
13
14 > On Tuesday 22 October 2013 11:19:54 chrisfriedt@×××××.com wrote:
15 > > 1) using Gentoo Prefix to have a Gentoo install atop of Android. Someone
16 > > else has already done this recently - saw it on G+). This is really the
17 > > route for people who would still like to use their Android system but who
18 > > would also like to emerge packages on top of it in a separate sysroot.
19 > >
20 > > One issue with the toolchain is that definitions in portage itself
21 > > (/usr/portage/profiles) needs to be modified in order to use bionic
22 > > instead of glibc, which means that a simple overlay will not work until
23 > > Gentoo includes those definitions upstream in portage. Bit of a chicken /
24 > > egg problem.
25 >
26 > feel free to post patches to add the various bits as needed to the
27 > profiles/
28 > dir. i see no reason to keep those out of the main tree.
29 > -mike
30 >