Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: zuber@××××××.ch
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] GenOM (Gentoo on Openmoko)
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:07:06
Message-Id: 15297.193.5.216.100.1225192016.squirrel@mail.worldweb2000.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] GenOM (Gentoo on Openmoko) by Christoph Spielmann
1 > Christopher Friedt schrieb:
2 > Yep that's where i actually got it
3 >> If you absolutely need to compile it, then why don't you just set up a
4 >> native compilation environment? Cross-compile gcc, portage, etc for
5 >> armv4t, and any other dependencies of perl, and then boot the
6 >> FreeRunner from your new kernel into a root filesystem that you've
7 >> populated with all of the previous binary packages you've compiled.
8 >> Then you should be able to 'emerge perl', although it will likely take
9 >>
10 > A long time? My guess is that it would take ages.... Well as i said i
11 > emerged a binary package of perl and didn't bother myself with it any
12 > more. It would be cool tho if it would be easier to cross-compile, but
13 > what would life be without obstacles...
14
15 At the moment i emerge packages on the freerunner because of the bad
16 crosscompile support of most ebuilds. I installed distcc on the desktop pc
17 to help during compilation. But the big problem is the configure script,
18 it takes ages to complete.
19
20 Someone came up with the idea to emerge the whole stuff in a
21 qemu-freerunner. Does anyone already tried this? I wonder if it is faster
22 than on the freerunner itself.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-embedded] GenOM (Gentoo on Openmoko) Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-embedded] GenOM (Gentoo on Openmoko) Christopher Friedt <chrisfriedt@×××××.com>