Re: [gentoo-embedded] Configuration of an embedded system

["Daniel Stonier" <d.stonier@gmail.com>]

2008/11/20 Ryan Tandy <tarpman@gmail.com>:
> 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.

Oh, cheers!...Thanks for the information.

Regards,
Daniel Stonier.