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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-soc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] Gentoo on Android, Summary for 2013.6.28-7.1
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:59:19
Message-Id: 51D1995A.8050707@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-soc] Gentoo on Android, Summary for 2013.6.28-7.1 by heroxbd
1 On 07/01/2013 04:48 PM, heroxbd wrote:
2 > Dear Guys and Gals,
3 >
4 > Gentoo on Android is about running Gentoo natively in a directory prefix
5 > on Android devices[1] in parallel with native Android, mentored by Luca.
6 >
7 > Progress report for the past 3 days,
8 >
9 > 1. gcc specs hack is not that interesting as it first looks.
10 > - parsing or generating specs script is no fun.
11 > The best parser/generator is gcc itself
12 > - appending simple specs (suches -dynamic-linker=/xx/xx.so) feel
13 > not clever, appending --with-spec to configure either.
14 >
15 > Therefore, I decide not to use specs hack as the main building
16 > block. At the same time, it can be handy to do manual tuning
17 > with it.
18
19 That must be reconsidered later to understand what's the problem and if
20 upstream can help on that.
21
22 > Relying on binutils wrapper is no good either. The solution
23 > finally falls on a mixed one between sysroot and native paths
24 > methods (ref. table in [2]). Where I make use of eprefixify of
25 > prefix.eclass to modify location of dynamic linker for *run
26 > time* and sysroot for *compile time*.
27
28 It isn't perfect, but as long it gives result I can live with that.
29
30 > 2. Prefix/libc armhf works rock solid. It is now being "emerge -e
31 > @world" with the help of many distcc cross compilers. I have to
32 > leave my cell phone home for a constant power supply and
33 > ethernet connection (yes! USB ethernet adapter) though.
34
35 Make sure it is near a heatsink (AC or such).
36
37 > The bug is related to VDSO. A full description of the problem is
38 > on stackoverflow[3]. I'd be very appreciated for any hints.
39
40 uclibc or musl might or might not help?
41
42 lu

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Re: [gentoo-soc] Gentoo on Android, Summary for 2013.6.28-7.1 heroxbd <heroxbd@×××××.com>