Re: [gentoo-embedded] Embedded profile?

["Dustin C. Hatch" <admiralnemo@gmail.com>]

On 10/14/2013 07:26, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> crossdev sets up an embedded profile by default:
>   ls -l make.profile
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Oct 14 14:22 make.profile ->
> /usr/portage/profiles/embedded/
>
> This profile seems a bit outdated and also appears to create this error
> msg:
> emerge-x86_64-tm-linux-gnu -a openrc
>
>   * IMPORTANT: 3 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
>   * Use eselect news to read news items.
>
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild  N     ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r3 to /usr/x86_64-tm-linux-gnu/
> USE="cxx minimal -ada -debug -doc -gpm -profile -static-libs -tinfo -trace
> -unicode"
> [ebuild  N     ] sys-process/psmisc-22.20 to /usr/x86_64-tm-linux-gnu/
> USE="-X -ipv6 -nls (-selinux)"
> [ebuild  N     ] sys-apps/openrc-0.12.2 to /usr/x86_64-tm-linux-gnu/
> USE="netifrc -debug -ncurses -newnet -pam (-prefix) (-selinux)
> -static-libs -tools -unicode"
> [ebuild  N     ] net-misc/netifrc-0.1 to /usr/x86_64-tm-linux-gnu/
>
> Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
>   * ARCH is not set... Are you missing the '/usr/x86_64-tm-linux-
>   * gnu/etc/portage/make.profile' symlink? Is the symlink correct? Is your
>   * portage tree complete?
>
> I wonder, is the embedded profile maintained or is it just an leftover
> that should be removed?
> If not, could someone update it so it at least does not error out?
>
>   Jocke
>
The problem here is that with EAPI 5, profile-only variables were 
introduced, one of which is ARCH. The embedded profile does not contain 
an ARCH definition (because it isn't specific to any architecture), and 
crossdev gets around this by putting it in the make.conf it generates in 
/usr/{chost}/etc/make.conf. The bug, therefore, is in crossdev; it 
should put the ARCH definition in 
/usr/{chost}/etc/portage/profile/make.defaults instead. I think there 
are some other variables that will need to be set in there as well 
(USERLAND, LIBC, KERNEL, etc.).

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