Re: [gentoo-embedded] Re: Cross Wrappers

[Ned Ludd]

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 09:45 -0400, Christopher Friedt wrote:
> Hi Ned & Mike,
>
> I like the fix_la_files() and fix_pkgconfig_files() functions in
> cross-fix-root.
>
> Prefixing emerge with CHOST- might be better because of tab completion -
> i.e. using x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-[tab] would give you several results
> including gcc, emerge, etc. At least it would be more uniform in any
> case and uniformity makes it much easier to incorporate into other code.
>
> If your changes were incorporated into crossdev, so that the wrappers
> were automatically generated per-toolchain (or even if symlinks were
> made and $0 was checked), that would be awesome.


Here is the updated version which does all that.

http://dev.gentoo.org/~solar/embedded/crossdev-wrappers-20080622.ebuild




> Chris
>
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Sunday 22 June 2008, Ned Ludd wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 23:29 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >>> On Saturday 21 June 2008, Ned Ludd wrote:
> >>> for the configure tests, ive been meaning to investigate switching over
> >>> to a config.site rather than exporting them through the environment ...
> >> I'll see what I can snag from here.
> >> https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/include/site (hate traq)
> >> Any tips/links to some others?
> >
> > it's just an idea i had floating around.  havent actually looked into
> > implementation details.  but if another project is already maintaining the
> > site files, then we should push our little differences to them and then just
> > start using their work ;).
> >
> >>> for the CHOST, how about checking $0 ?  so people can symlink like:
> >>> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-emerge and then they can just run that without
> >>> needing anything set in the
> >>> environment ... that's how i generally multiplex my cross scripts for
> >>> multiple targets.
> >> I have it right now as emerge-CHOST.
> >> I figured the logic there that CHOST-* should be mostly
> >> reserved for the toolchain, plus it's easier for me to emerge-\t\t and
> >> pull in the right wrapper foo for whatever I'm working on.
> >
> > i think having it all be CHOST- prefixed rather than suffixed is better for
> > consistency.  or just provide both :).
> >
> >> When you run emerge-wrapper --init
> >> it sets up all the symlink love which would probably be run a
> >> pkg_postinst().
> >
> > i mean when you do `crossdev FOO`, it'll create symlinks in /usr/bin/ to the
> > wrappers already ... no need for the user to run any other commands in the
> > default case ...
> >
> > cant really divine what targets need what love from a pkg_postinst()
> >
> >>> we could have crossdev manage the symlinks automatically as well so they
> >>> get the ...-emerge and ...-pkg-config by default.  and setup the
> >>> PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT too ...
> >> Yep that's what it does. I'll move the pkg over to usr/share/crossdev/
> >> Got a crossdev in cvs/svn some place so I can create a ./wrappers
> >> subdir?
> >
> > ive been lazy and maintaining crossdev in $FILESDIR ... if you want to ask
> > robbat2 for a crossdev git or svn, we can transition to that.
> > -mike

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