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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Binary packages for a different amd64 flavor
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 23:28:17
Message-Id: 20180622232755.5ankjbc27xjr4nud@matica.foolinux.mooo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Binary packages for a different amd64 flavor by R0b0t1
1 On 2018-06-12 14:33, R0b0t1 wrote:
2
3 > Use crossdev to generate an x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (or x86) toolchain.
4 > You can specify something in place of "pc" to identify the system and
5 > be fairly compliant, or you can invent your own naming and specify the
6 > architecture manually. This will create a root in /usr with the name
7 > given that will have a make.conf in /usr/${name}/etc/portage and
8 > generated packages in /usr/${name}/usr/portage/packages.
9
10 I have thought about this. But if the build host and target
11 architectures are incompatible (as I think they are in my case), in the
12 end I would need an emulator (like qemu) anyway. Right? I'm trying
13 really hard to avoid that, because it is almost impossible to keep track
14 of qemu security issues.
15
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