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On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 3:41 AM, Danny YUE <sheepduke@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Gentoo? Raspbian? Or even...arch? |
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> This might seems to be the wrong place to ask, but I consider Gentoo as |
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> my first-place option, so I would like to know your experiences. |
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If you want to use Gentoo on an embedded device you should be ready to |
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set up crossdev and a crossroot for it. This isn't hard. |
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Unfortunately, there are rather serious issues[1] in autotools that |
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prevent some packages from building with crossdev (code needs to be |
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run for various tests, but the tests compile it for the target system |
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- ARM - and try to run it on the host). |
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The packages that make up the stage3 image compile properly and large |
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packages like Perl and some others compile properly, but not |
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everything does and failures need to be fixed on a per-package basis. |
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I have a system and use it like this and it works fairly well. If you |
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want to use Debian or Arch one of the things you need to consider is |
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it will be much harder to get programs that are not already packaged |
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for you. |
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[1] An extremely interesting example is libidn2, where an autotools |
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test compiles a program to generate C code to be included in the |
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program: what is happening is a program generates a program to |
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generate a program to generate a program which is used by a program to |
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generate a program. |
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