> Parabola seems like the way forward. Gentoo also has some > development happening, but they have not gotten the install to a > point that even a pretty experienced Gentoo developer I know can > do it. I have a Gentoo dev who owes me a physical hard drive with > an install, but it's been months and haven't gotten it back yet :-
When I tried installing both distros in early 2011, the difference in difficulty was that Parabola included built kernels working on the YeeLoong, while for Gentoo I needed a kernel from gNewSense metad (most documentation I found at that time recommended crossbuilding kernels). > Anyone know if it is possible/easy/how to compile mipsel o32 ABI > binaries from an n32 ABI based GNU/Linux distribution? It is theoretically possible, needs all libraries used available for o32 and the -mabi GCC option. Gentoo offers multilib stages which could make it easier (never tried them, used only n32). Parabola doesn't include any o32 binaries and I believe it would be too difficult to support both ABIs at once there. A probably more common solution is to use a chroot with the target distribution to build the package (not much harder than using debootstrap; both gNewSense metad and Parabola kernels can run binaries of both ABIs).
pgpWT8VaXQIw3.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabolagnulinux.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
