On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Yohan Pereira <yohan.pere...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I recently got a minimal gentoo running on the pi (without running > emerge/compiling on the pi), here's what I've learned. > > Cross compilation is FUN <\sarcasm>. Lots of packages (like python) > don't like being cross compiled. A good number of failures occurred > because of missing build time dependencies on the host, Some times I had > to copy certain files need at build-time from the host to the arm > sysroot (mainly for the x11-proto/* packages). > > For the really adamant packages (like python) I used the method > described here [1] to build binary packages using a native arm chroot + > qemu-user (a rather interesting way to go about it). > > However I've not compared the performance (wrt compilation time) to > running a full blown arm qemu vm so you may want to try that and see > what works better for you. But I reckon any of these methods should be > faster than compiling on the pi on a modern CPU. > > Also note cross-compiling is way faster than this method so I preferred > cross-compiling and only resorted to this for packages like python. > > In the end I got it to boot. Then I decided I wanted to try xbmc, after > seeing the long list of dependencies, I went ahead and installed > openELEC :D. Which works great BTW (Still trying to find some indian > news streams). > > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=1&chap=5 > (Note that page is a bit dated, app-emulation/qemu-user is masked in the > tree. Use app-emulation/qemu instead) >
Emulating the Pi on my machine would be slower since I have a dated E2180. It would be rather easier to get distcc on the Pi and make use of the 3 processors. But need to first figure out how to install emerge there... alternatively, could go with paludis which is written in C++, so the nagging python thing won't be there. -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com
