Re: [gentoo-embedded] Re: Cross Wrappers

[Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 06:12 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Sunday 22 June 2008, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 23:29 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > On Saturday 21 June 2008, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > > for the configure tests, ive been meaning to investigate switching over
> > > to a config.site rather than exporting them through the environment ...
> >
> > I'll see what I can snag from here.
> > https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/include/site (hate traq)
> > Any tips/links to some others?
> 
> it's just an idea i had floating around.  havent actually looked into 
> implementation details.  but if another project is already maintaining the 
> site files, then we should push our little differences to them and then just 
> start using their work ;).


> > > for the CHOST, how about checking $0 ?  so people can symlink like:
> > > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-emerge and then they can just run that without
> > > needing anything set in the
> > > environment ... that's how i generally multiplex my cross scripts for
> > > multiple targets.
> >
> > I have it right now as emerge-CHOST.
> > I figured the logic there that CHOST-* should be mostly 
> > reserved for the toolchain, plus it's easier for me to emerge-\t\t and
> > pull in the right wrapper foo for whatever I'm working on.
> 
> i think having it all be CHOST- prefixed rather than suffixed is better for 
> consistency.  or just provide both :).

done.

> > When you run emerge-wrapper --init 
> > it sets up all the symlink love which would probably be run a
> > pkg_postinst().
> 

> i mean when you do `crossdev FOO`, it'll create symlinks in /usr/bin/ to the 
> wrappers already ... no need for the user to run any other commands in the 
> default case ...
> 
> cant really divine what targets need what love from a pkg_postinst()

That seems logical moving forward. But for ppl who installed crossdev
before "next-release" benefit from being able to quickly have everything
initialized without having to crossdev merge everything again.

> > > we could have crossdev manage the symlinks automatically as well so they
> > > get the ...-emerge and ...-pkg-config by default.  and setup the
> > > PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT too ...
> >
> > Yep that's what it does. I'll move the pkg over to usr/share/crossdev/
> > Got a crossdev in cvs/svn some place so I can create a ./wrappers
> > subdir?
> ive been lazy and maintaining crossdev in $FILESDIR ... if you want to ask 
> robbat2 for a crossdev git or svn, we can transition to that.
> -mike


done.

http://sources.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=crossdev.git;a=summary

http://sources.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=crossdev.git;a=snapshot;sf=tbz2

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