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Thanks a lot Jason, |
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I gonna start again |
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Jason <gentoo@××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> maxime louvel wrote: |
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> ... |
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> > I want to install a gentoo system on a mpc8548amc (powerpc based board |
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> from |
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> > Freescale). |
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> > The board is following the powerpc standard (32bits) but has no Floating |
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> > Point Unit. |
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> ok |
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> > Thus I have tryed to create a cross compiler |
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> powerpc-softfloat-linux-gnu. |
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> > I have followed the gentoo handbok to do that. |
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> I assume you mean the gentoo embedded handbook? [1] |
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> > I have been able to emere portage (after a sync) for my CHOST. |
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> > I have tried to |
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> > emerge baselayout glibc binutils |
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> > There is what I start encountering trouble... |
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> From the error message, it look as though you were cross-emerging on |
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> your host. Were you using the xmerge script in [1]? |
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> At any rate, make sure to read Section 5 of [2] carefully: |
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> "Warning: xmerge defaults to ROOT=$SYSROOT. Because SYSROOT is where the |
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> cross toolchain is hosted on the host system, if you need to cross |
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> emerge any toolchain components (i.e. gcc, system libc, binutils, kernel |
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> headers, or gdb) for hosting on the target system, you do not want to |
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> use ROOT=$SYSROOT; use the --root option to specify a different |
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> directory instead. If you ignore this warning, you will end up |
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> overwriting your cross toolchain with the target system's toolchain |
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> components and breaking cross emerging completely, and the only way to |
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> fix it will be to delete your SYSROOT directory and rebuild your cross |
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> toolchain." |
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> I looked for this warning in [1] and couldn't find it. Perhaps it |
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> should be added? ;-) |
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> So, if this looks like what happened to you, you'll need to start over. |
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> Delete $SYSROOT, and crossdev -C the toolchain, then rebuild it. |
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> Once that's done, you can either use INSTALL_MASK as suggested by [1], |
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> or 'xmerge --root /tmp/newroot packagename' or do what I do, rsync it |
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> out of $SYSROOT with a good rsync filter file. |
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> hth, |
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> Jason. |
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> [1] - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/ |
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> [2] - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/cross-development.xml |
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> -- |
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