[gentoo-soc] Gentoo on Android: Summary for 2013.6.7-19

[heroxbd]

Dear Guy and Gals,

Gentoo on Android is about running Gentoo natively on Android
devices[1], mentored by Luca.

I should have reported on 6.14, but I was thinking to finish before
reporting and couldn't stop. Apologies to this. I will watch against
this behavior pattern in the future.

Here comes to the summary.

I am ahead of fixed plan now: a usable Prefix/libc solution is
completed[2], and is just announced to attract more testers and
developers[3].

Plan for 6.20 and 6.21: 

    a. clear out the requirement of cross compile on Prefix and roll out
       a GLEP draft. We are already gaining momentum on a
       specification[4] in Prefix community.

    b. reflect more on gcc spec hack of toolchain, discussed today on
       IRC gentoo-prefix with redlizard and Mr. (surprise!)
       ABCD. Construct a toy system if time permitted.

       We have accumulated many kinds of wrappers that injects magic
       command line oppotions in Gentoo Prefix, and Prefix/libc adds
       even more. Things are getting more complex. By centering all
       hacks into gcc specs would make an elegant solution, with a
       by-product of merging {gcc,binutils}-config between Gentoo Prefix
       and vanilla.

       An example of hacking gcc spec from LFS:

       http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter06/adjusting.html

Cheers,
Benda

1. http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/~benda/projects/android.html
2. http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/libc
3. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.alt/6638
4. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.alt/6629