Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: tserra@××××××××××××××.pt
To: gentoo-embedded@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Welcome
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 18:58:22
Message-Id: 20031107185420.20ab7d56.tserra@student.dei.uc.pt
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Welcome by david@futuretel.com
1 On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 14:57:19 -0800
2 david@×××××××××.com wrote:
3
4 > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:40:39PM -0600, nDiScReEt wrote:
5 > > <snip>
6 > > I'd suggest you use glibc at the moment. A uClibc-based build will be
7 > > incompatible with all the pre-existing binaries.
8 > >
9 > > p.
10 > > <snip>
11 > >
12 >
13 > Well that's all find and dandy in the binary distro world. But we're
14 > gentoo people ;-) binaries ? rpms ? debs ? I jedi craves not these
15 > things.
16 >
17
18 I dont either, but how are we going to build apps on this slow systems? Build them on a desktop with a toolchain, build them in the embedded system with distcc? sure, but if I want to build on my ipaq without a distccd farm or time on my hands?
19
20 > uClibc does not "gaurantee" binary compatability among releases. Some
21 > of the releases keep it, some don't. I don't think it would be a big
22 > deal to have a flag in the ebuilds that said "ABI has changed,
23 > recompile all packages"
24 >
25
26 Agreed.
27
28 > The storage savings in embedded systems with uClibc is worth FAR
29 > more(to me) than the occasionaly total system recompile. Especially
30 > if distcc gets to the point where you can distcc your cross
31 > compiles....</wish>
32 > Dave
33 >
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