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On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 08:10:58PM +0400, Dirk Tilger wrote: |
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> If it's about using Gentoo on your O2, you could look for any Linux |
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> distribution to give you a solid ground and then use gentoo-prefix in |
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> your daily activities. That would even work if you had IRIX on the box, |
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> but is most likely equally experimental as having Gentoo on it. |
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Why on earth would anyone want to do that? That is perhaps the most |
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silly solution to an issue that has ever been suggested on this list. |
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> What might help: Using gentoo-embedded one could emerge a cross |
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> compilation toolchain on a decent compilation machine of any |
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> architecture (sys-devel/crossdev). Then you export that compiler using |
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> sys-devel/distcc and make it available on your slow Gentoo/MIPS box. |
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Except that some important packages are a pain in the arse to |
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cross-compile. |
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Alexander Færøy |