Re: [gentoo-alt] Crossdev in a prefix / bug 384167

[Jason Cooper]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 01:57:21PM -0700, Greg Turner wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Jason Cooper <gentoo@××××××××××.net> wrote:
> > Sorry, resending for the list.  forgot to swap aliases...
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:27:59PM -0700, Greg Turner wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Jason Cooper <gentoo@××××××××××.net> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 03:17:44AM -0700, gmt@×××××.us wrote:
> >> > > I have crossdev starting to work in a prefix, via an overlay.
> >> [snip]
> >> > I'd be particularly interested on building arm and powerpc toolchains on
> >> > OSX.
> >>
> >> Most likely these will require additional patching to sys-libs/uclibc
> >> or whatever ELIBC corresponds to your particular targets/ARCH's of
> >> interest.  Indeed, a quick test of crossdev
> >> =cross-arm-linux-uclibc/uclibc-0.9.33.2-r4 confirms this ("Aborting
> >> due to QA concerns: there are files installed outside the prefix").
> >
> > The C library isn't that critical to me, but it would eventually be
> > useful.  On my gentoo system I currently have
> >
> >   arm-none-linux-gnueabi
> >   powerpc-none-linux-gnueabi
> >   i586-pc-linux-gnu
>
> Unfortunately the libc ebuild is a semi-required part of the crossdev
> build process, which makes sense when you consider that the gcc build
> system needs to know how to link, i.e., libstdc++.a.

I'm referring to the crossdev options -s0 and -s1.  If we can get that
far, that's usable for me.  Anything after that is gravy.

> > I'd previously tried to do gentoo prefix on my macbook air as a
> > replacement for macports and to get crossdev.  Didn't work out so well.
> > :-/
>
> Well you know what they say, 3333rd time's the charm :)

I have patience and desire.  I do _not_ have the luxury of time ;-)

thx,

Jason.