Oh, nice. That must be new. When I looked into this I remember there was talk about an embedded project but they hadn't actually produced anything that that point. They talk about the autoconf issue in there as well, and apparently they just force it to think everything is ok for those few cases. If they have it all figured out for you then I take back my earlier comments.
Gabe Quoting nathan binkert <[email protected]>: > I still find this surprising. There's a whole handbook that's > basically on cross compiling, so at least perhaps it has come a long > way: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/ > > I think the biggest issue might be that you need a gentoo system as a > host, but with virtual machines, or even chroot, we should be able to > accomplish that. > > Nate > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Gabriel Michael Black > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> I think I recall Gabe saying that you can configure portage to use a >>> cross-compiler. I could probably figure that out, but given that I'm a >>> total gentoo newbie I'd be happy to receive canned instructions. Anyway >>> even if we eventually end up just generating a new image that most people >>> use, it would be good to document the process for those people that need >>> something more custom. >>> >> >> There is a way for you to do this, but it won't really work. The >> problem is that a lot of programs expect to run things that are >> compiled with the selected compiler when they're being configured. You >> may have seen messages when building something where there's a sanity >> check to make sure the compiler can generate a functioning executable. >> Beyond little but tricky hangups like that it should work in theory. >> In the end it would be much less headache to do a real install or run >> under some sort of speedy emulation like maybe QEMU than to try to >> cross compile. >> >> Gabe >> >> _______________________________________________ >> m5-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >> >> > _______________________________________________ > m5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users > _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
