Re: [gentoo-user] Locale generation and keymaps for cross compiliation?

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

On Friday 14 December 2012 11:22:52 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> On Friday 14 December 2012 03:38 AM, Dustin C. Hatch wrote:
>> On 12/13/2012 11:58, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a Raspberry Pi. I have gone through the cross development guides
>>> on gentoo.org and my barebones distro (consisting of chrony, sshd, bash)
>>> is ready (all I did is armv6j-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi-emerge
>>> --root=/mnt/sdcard baselayout bash openssh chrony) which is of course
>>> after setting up the toolchain using crossdev.
>>>
>>> Now the problem is, since I'm on amd64 box (and don't have an ARM
>>> emulator), how do I generate the locale [without using an ARM emulator]?
>>> Also, how to go about keymaps? /usr/share/keymaps seems to be missing in
>>> the tree and equery returned no packages owning those files.
>>>
>>
>> I have been wondering the same thing. If you find the answer, please
>> share it.
>>
>> Incidentally, have you been able to boot the system you created as
>> described? I am working on a very similar setup, but I haven't been able
>> to get bash to work. It complains that it can't find libgcc_s.so.1, and
>> I don't want to install GCC on my Raspberry Pi.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>
> Mine doesn't boot either, same shared library error.
> For now I've set static and static-libs flag at global level, but this
> is not going to go good when I start installing other stuff over it.
> I think the best way out would be to install gcc? :S
>

It turns out that if you copy libgcc_s.so and libgcc_s.so.1 from 
/usr/lib/gcc/armv6j-hardfloat-linux/gnueabi (on host system) to /lib on 
the sd card, the library error goes away.

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