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On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 10:58:55PM +0000, James Le Cuirot wrote: |
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> Sorry for the length of this but you really need to consider the bigger |
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> picture with this stuff and not all devs are familiar with it. |
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> For EAPI 7, mgorny and I are seeking to address some cross-compiling |
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> issues. This is a subject I've long had an interest in and before I |
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> became a developer, I created a project called cross-boss that, to be |
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> blunt, hacks its way through the shortcomings in Portage and the tree. |
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> It does (or at least did when I last worked on it) achieve a higher |
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> success rate than you would get from crossdev alone and allows you to |
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> install a brand new standalone system from scratch as opposed to one |
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> under /usr/${CHOST}. |
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> I have heard some developers say that cross-compiling is simply not |
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> worth the effort but I have succeeded in building some big ticket items |
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> including MariaDB, GTK+, Qt4, and LibreOffice. This is one area where |
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> Gentoo can really shine so I would like to exploit that potential. |
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Thanks for the nice write up. |
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I've been using a prefix installation (no root privileges to use Gentoo) |
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and Intel compilers with Portage to cross compile stuff for the Xeon Phi[1]. |
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For the most part I've just hacked my way into making things work, but |
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it would be cool to get a project going to do this properly. |
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Cheers, |
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—Guilherme |
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[1] https://software.intel.com/en-us/mic-developer |
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