Re: [gentoo-soc] Weekly Report: Project - Standalone Gentoo Chromebook

[Ashwin Kumar]

> Does the resulting cross toolchain work for you?
Yes, It is.

> On CrOS we are building natively, why a cross toolchain is needed?
I have just changed the vendor name. Architecture, OS and C Libraries are
the same

On Wed, 1 Jul 2020, 13:54 Benda Xu, <heroxbd@g.o> wrote:

> Ashwin Kumar <ashwinkumar3098@×××××.com> writes:
>
> >> What prevents you from using Gentoo native toolchain binary package?
> > When I tried to emerge binary package, crOS was missing make and patch
> > which again puts in circular dependencies.
>
> No, Gentoo binary packages do not need make and patch.  Please study:
>
>   https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide
>
> >> Why is crosstool necessary?
>
> > Crosstool-ng produces toolchain directory and can just be moved to
> > crOS (easier than building packages individually)
>
> Does the resulting cross toolchain work for you?
>
> On CrOS we are building natively, why a cross toolchain is needed?
>
> Benda
>