From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GCL1s-0003El-9T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:49:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7DIluHf001864; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:47:56 GMT Received: from skinny.southernlinux.net (ns2.rednecks.net [64.192.52.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7DIltOK029545 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:47:56 GMT Received: (qmail 13649 invoked by uid 210); 13 Aug 2006 14:47:18 -0400 Received: from 64.192.55.166 by skinny (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (clamdscan: 0.88.4/1650. f-prot: 4.4.2/3.14.11. spamassassin: 3.1.3. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(64.192.55.166):. Processed in 0.079167 secs); 13 Aug 2006 18:47:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.99.99.10?) (64.192.55.166) by 0 with SMTP; 13 Aug 2006 14:47:18 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Gentoo on handhelds From: Ned Ludd To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <9956e0d30608130922s4fd34114v14778511c6ad04bd@mail.gmail.com> References: <9956e0d30608130922s4fd34114v14778511c6ad04bd@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:47:48 -0400 Message-Id: <1155494868.8596.71.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cb74e0a5-80f9-494f-b405-40aa5eba2958 X-Archives-Hash: e3ff5c5a9b50d92890baf8074a452827 On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 19:22 +0300, Vladimir Pouzanov wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on linux port to Palm Tungsten T3 (arm-le) handheld. > Development tasks slowly move from kernel-space to user-space so now > I'm interested in some base distribution/packaging system for the > handheld. > > I'm choosing from gentoo-embedded, CRUX and OpenEmbedded. OE is > targeted for handhelds but it has absolutely weird build system > (however it is similar to portage... sometimes). CRUX is optimized for > i686 and has no pre-requisites for cross-compilation but packages are > rather easily compiled inside scratchbox environment. Gentoo... I > haven't tried gentoo yet, but I'm doing to do so. > > I want to know the current status of gentoo-embedded. Can I build a > working rootfs based on uclibc using emerge? You can build pretty much anything you want for any arch, cross or native.. Every so often when using uClibc you will encounter a pkg that depends on nls/iconv handling or so.. >>From my personal experiences I've found that uClibc tends to be less problematic when cross compiling vs glibc. What is lacking is the glue to make the root_fs itself. But that task tends to be easy enough (depending on desired fstype). -- Ned Ludd Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list