2011/11/21 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 06:24:15PM +0100, Bjørn Forsman wrote: >> 2011/11/21 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <[email protected]>: >> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:50:25AM +0100, Rickard Nilsson wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> How should I do to cross-build my configuration.nix for the SheevaPlug? Is >> >> it possible? I have read about cross-building in the wiki, but it talks >> >> about cross-building individual packages. How can I cross-build a complete >> >> system? >> > >> > We do not have that ready now. The nixos expressions are all meant for >> > native >> > building. >> >> I dream of combining Aboriginal Linux[1] and nixos. Aboriginal >> provides a minimal native build environment (gcc, make...) for a bunch >> of architectures. All that's needed then is to have a (native) distro >> build system that can bootstrap itself. (Nixos is the only distro I >> know of that seem to care about this kind of bootstrapping.) >> > > In theory (Michael claims it does not work for him), we can cross-build make, > gcc, nix, into a bootable system. Then we can build bootstrap tools there. > > This is how I built the bootstrap-tools for armv5tel and mips n32, and then > used > nixos there, iirc.
I read http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/cgi-bin/nanonixos/doc/trunk/doc/usage.wiki. - Does nanonixos bootstrapping depend on a nixos host? - Is nix very slow on your embedded system? On my x86 QEMU test system I find nix/nixos to be very slow :-( BTW: The Aboriginal Linux creator is also working on boostrapping various distros (LFS, gentoo, funtoo, fedora, debian, ...), but I guess this isn't the list to discuss general distro bootstrapping :-) Best regards, Bjørn Forsman _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
