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 1L3IUI-0004Ds-9A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:59:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9B6AE03B7; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:59:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.184]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A73C7E03B7 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:59:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so794704fks.2 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:59:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=/S3z+W12/9D/2muF0zCqtketYM01VjtyXkVU0jIaLvU=; b=JMd9k/R9FeeFEmGGcQfJSgkUvlknAJnPxQcC2EbcIcBmLi6i+hSTQgiJ3/njgtj1qD GgZWCZ9WHIkxNYqxC/kc7DZX/NMy0T2JclaRDUPOKc1vXHUk3NZsd02wNmTbHijSYk3W dL4VbrXkAzSGDTbqvlVX5tCHOD6VtmSUZGm+E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=pwx99q14bF/6kZQUNzoe+0j4fzpIh4BqkvnJnABpDGwZFzDiobEHCtUqzxbmslFlpe W00yLClUyHnLt0L8lj68jOzBjysYGMHmxwA1xZFcJlA7OU81ArzIOa60q0CqF44vUhUZ YSXWecGy6hlVr7XadBd41kzFq6OQBt72tXftI= Received: by 10.181.221.15 with SMTP id y15mr888974bkq.121.1227221940331; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:59:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.181.27.16 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:59:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <27dfa3d0811201459i60882bbbr4279d90b9cfecd63@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:59:00 +0900 From: "Daniel Stonier" To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Configuration of an embedded system In-Reply-To: <20081120084916.GA5035@tarpman.is-a-geek.org> 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <8349216a0810100607s9f70ab4tbead2eb697e7e1e3@mail.gmail.com> <20081115054727.GE21400@nibiru.local> <001d01c94a37$e4331720$ac994560$@com> <20081120105052.GC2577@tarpman.is-a-geek.org> <27dfa3d0811192331t7426a819k6fd0802754059b9e@mail.gmail.com> <20081120084916.GA5035@tarpman.is-a-geek.org> X-Archives-Salt: ce1254fa-59d9-4d45-8614-0297baebc660 X-Archives-Hash: 307cb0ebcc58d01e04a3ace3641d929b 2008/11/20 Ryan Tandy : > 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.