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

[Benda Xu]

Hi Ashwin,



Ashwin Kumar <ashwinkumar3098@×××××.com> writes:



> As gcc needed glibc version 2.29,


Which gcc requires glibc-2.29.  Could you elaborate on that?



> I started emerging it with its dependencies and also by adding
> required use flags. But it built a glibc that doesn’t work and failed
> sanity checks. So, I changed the profile to
> default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop


I am concerned that if you use this profile, the system will not be a

chromebook anymore.



> and added gcc, glibc to packages.provided which overcame the problem
> of circular dependencies.
>
> Then, It needed perl package, So I had to cross compile it using
> crossdev.


(from your blog)

> After all this, perl package failed to emerge by giving an error that it
> couldn’t cross-compile perl. I asked on IRC Channel and they asked me to
> find the right version of perl to emerge which is compatible perl-cross


> x86_64-cros-linux-gnu-emerge -av1 =dev-lang/perl-5.30.1


Where are you compiling perl?  Why do you need to cross compile perl?  I

am completely confused.



> At last, I zipped the toolchain directory, copied to crOS and unzipped
> it. But it failed as it had less space on its root partition. I
> referred a script called chromeos-resize.sh and learnt things that was
> required. It successfully extended the root partition.


(from your blog)

> Similarly as above, Missing USE flag 'amd64' So, added amd64 use flag
> under IUSE_IMPLICIT variable to
> /etc/portage/make.profile/make.defaults


> IUSE_IMPLICIT="abi_x86_64 prefix prefix-guest kernel_linux amd64"


This is wrong.  'amd64' is a Gentoo KEYWORD, do not mix it with USE.

Please look for ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in the profile.  Refer to,



  https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ACCEPT_KEYWORDS





Benda