Re: [gentoo-alt] small crossdev patch

[Elias Pipping]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 08:03:55PM +1000, Peter Ansell wrote:
> On 18/11/2007, Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote:
> > On 18-11-2007 09:05:46 +1000, Peter Ansell wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I did some experimenting with crossdev in my OS X Leopard prefix and
> > > found that it was failing looking for /etc/portage... so I made up a
> > > patch for the places where it does this.
> > >
> > > I know crossdev isn't keyworded at all, and this is possibly not the
> > > place to post patches, but I am new to this. The patch possibly isn't
> > > perfect as I just inserted ${EPREFIX} into a few lines...
> > >
> > > Any suggestions for where to submit future patches would be great.
> >
> > The patch looks fine.  ${EPREFIX} should have been quoted, however.
> >
> > I don't have any strict policy on where or what.  Here is fine,
> > especially if you ask for some discussion, which is what you do IMHO.
> >
> > Anyhow, how far do/did you get with this?  I have experimented a fair
> > bit with cross-compiling, with not much success.
> >
>
> I was able to use the crossdev script to do some elementary stuff
> after those changes.
>
> I am trying to get an i686-pc-linux-gnu compiler/toolchain inside my
> i686-apple-darwin9 prefix. I got to the end of the binutils
> compilation and it complained about symbols/names that were not going
> to work at installation. I then hacked around that as it kind of
> suggested by putting FEATURES="allow_broken_install_names" in
> make.conf, only to find that gcc complained the next time because the
> .dylib files were not correct, which was the expected behaviour after
> hacking around the first error.
>
> I will privately email you the log files to see whether you can make
> any sense of them.

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-- Elias