Re: [gentoo-soc] Gentoo on Android: Summary for 2013.6.7-19

[Luca Barbato]

On 06/19/2013 04:41 PM, heroxbd wrote:
> Dear Guy and Gals,
>
> Gentoo on Android is about running Gentoo natively on Android
> devices[1], mentored by Luca.
>
> I should have reported on 6.14, but I was thinking to finish before
> reporting and couldn't stop. Apologies to this. I will watch against
> this behavior pattern in the future.
>
> Here comes to the summary.
>
> I am ahead of fixed plan now: a usable Prefix/libc solution is
> completed[2], and is just announced to attract more testers and
> developers[3].
>
> Plan for 6.20 and 6.21:
>
>     a. clear out the requirement of cross compile on Prefix and roll out
>        a GLEP draft. We are already gaining momentum on a
>        specification[4] in Prefix community.
>
>     b. reflect more on gcc spec hack of toolchain, discussed today on
>        IRC gentoo-prefix with redlizard and Mr. (surprise!)
>        ABCD. Construct a toy system if time permitted.
>
>        We have accumulated many kinds of wrappers that injects magic
>        command line oppotions in Gentoo Prefix, and Prefix/libc adds
>        even more. Things are getting more complex. By centering all
>        hacks into gcc specs would make an elegant solution, with a
>        by-product of merging {gcc,binutils}-config between Gentoo Prefix
>        and vanilla.
>
>        An example of hacking gcc spec from LFS:
>
>        http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter06/adjusting.html

The plan is fine, but if there is time left I'd like to focus on using
clang as main compiler for prefix and use musl as prefix libc.

The rationale for the first is to push a bit the boundary the second is
because musl had been touted as a good match as side-libc for android
since it is really compact yet posix functional.

lu