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From: meino.cramer@×××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] crosscompiling...the point of view
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:38:56
Message-Id: 20120806163707.GA440@solfire
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] crosscompiling...the point of view by Paul Hartman
1 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> [12-08-06 17:36]:
2 > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:01 AM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
3 > > Hi,
4 > >
5 > > I am asking, because I found not only one description of somehow
6 > > complicated setups to compile a distribution (namely gentoo) for a
7 > > platform "A" (Beaglebone TI OMAP4) on that platform with distcc to
8 > > speedup things or with emulated chroot environments based on qemu...
9 > >
10 > > I thought it would be the easiest to compile the whole stuff on a host
11 > > system "B" with a crosscompilation toolchain...but may be I have
12 > > overlooked something important...
13 >
14 > Seems the best way to me, too.
15 >
16 > > So - is there any logical reason, which prevents the process of the
17 > > compilation of a complete distribution/rootfs/boot-mechanism for
18 > > a platform "A" on a hostsystem of the platform "B" if the cross
19 > > compilation toolchain is already installed on "B" and no emulated
20 > > environment is wanted?
21 >
22 > So you want to "install" the packages into a virtual filesystem image
23 > on the compiler machine to create a whole disk image for the target,
24 > basically? Hmmm. Maybe something like Scratchbox can help with this.
25 >
26 Hi Paul,
27
28 ...yes, exactly. But theproblem remains...is there a logical reason,
29 which renders this attempt useless ?
30
31 Best regards,
32 mcc

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