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

[Ashwin Kumar]

Hi,

> Which gcc requires glibc-2.29.  Could you elaborate on that?
Sorry, I have not logged the version but it was using keyword ~amd64 (Steps
to reproduce
<https://gist.github.com/zshzero/e9f7d763923203b3e8a14c8883ce4ed6>)

> I am concerned that if you use this profile, the system will not be a
chromebook anymore.
I was missing many keywords, so i changed the profile Also, I was prefixing
it to /usr/local to keep the system safe

> Where are you compiling perl?  Why do you need to cross compile perl?  I
am completely confused.
Here is the list <https://pastebin.com/1esZwLcc> of circular dependencies.
I was trying to add them to crOS

> This is wrong.  'amd64' is a Gentoo KEYWORD, do not mix it with USE.
I got this advice from irc channel for error => invalid: REDEPEND: USE flag
'amd64' referenced in conditional 'amd64?' is not in use


On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 at 19:33, Benda Xu <heroxbd@g.o> wrote:

> 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
>


-- 
- Regards

Ashwin A Kumar