From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L35E0-0002bv-Iv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:49:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 652ADE0443; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:49:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39A63E0443 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:49:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v33so181965wah.2 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:49:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=TAkHeD2tijJEIFOZaYCjsPrEYeHIBJL6FWQ/ss555DI=; b=l+CNawDbzMIr+OZrq5Fm8JBfbbopDbeBFQtC9cL7yCQRoL1il9y1MWKJXvqDh47jvy Qgydg7aGm+Vpg6/a3iDRt64pW6uc1neT6UP2FKSQxKwAbYHvqA31w6wIXhXJ54rcvbM6 jRGwB62WTYgpM2m06+PfBuyk8xxKJZ76NtelM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=Df06+bZXvsaWye4k+9Jgs6pYYh1Ql8zKllH/ELsR7O5mpNheYVLiJI6k0Wr4mktvns 7CclIsA4fcPbBq1WjAXfxsEBzQSr14Oh/X6fW9GmqJLvb0zbSw2QL3b6xsS5W787trwe eBhDt1/qoO24ymO2WHC5aJHWE3mzEknPJZlEc= Received: by 10.115.23.19 with SMTP id a19mr1232896waj.63.1227170959077; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:49:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (d154-5-39-133.bchsia.telus.net [154.5.39.133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q18sm1271190pog.25.2008.11.20.00.49.17 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:49:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:49:16 -0800 From: Ryan Tandy To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Configuration of an embedded system Message-ID: <20081120084916.GA5035@tarpman.is-a-geek.org> References: <8349216a0810100607s9f70ab4tbead2eb697e7e1e3@mail.gmail.com> <20081115054727.GE21400@nibiru.local> <001d01c94a37$e4331720$ac994560$@com> <20081120105052.GC2577@tarpman.is-a-geek.org> <27dfa3d0811192331t7426a819k6fd0802754059b9e@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <27dfa3d0811192331t7426a819k6fd0802754059b9e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 7b3f70a5-7c32-4809-bc7d-614854a7a5fe X-Archives-Hash: 620199b4bc9b180be85da4c34954013d On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 04:31:38PM +0900, Daniel Stonier wrote: > But you end up with alot of cruft that way Look into INSTALL_MASK. It is true, though, that one of the things Gentoo people tend to spend quite a bit of time at is stripping down their images. :) > and the other problem is most ebuilds aren't set up to work with > cross-compiling out of the box (lots of bugs), so xmerge falls over > alot. I wouldn't say 'most'. Unfortunately a non-trivial chunk of the ones that don't cross compile cleanly are ones that lots of people like to have (notable examples include perl and python). On the other hand, once you have a sane base system up, most packages should cross compile with minimal trickery. If you're struggling to get a package to compile, you can always check http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/ and see if anyone has left a package for your target there. > The other option I tried is openembedded. I haven't looked into openembedded much myself, but I understand it's pretty good at what it does. Thanks, Ryan