From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11E3413800E for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 13:03:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26F14E07A1; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 13:03:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CF6121C004 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 13:01:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 06 Aug 2012 13:01:41 -0000 Received: from p54850D47.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.13.71] by mail.gmx.net (mp012) with SMTP; 06 Aug 2012 15:01:41 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19+LDgBWPl++OnT4lyMyqLTFED6SvE6Chkw+Ym/fe sXEI2dihnr9OJy Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 15:01:41 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 15:01:40 +0200 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: Gentoo Subject: [gentoo-user] crosscompiling...the point of view Message-ID: <20120806130140.GA4381@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 388c881e-e24b-4fcd-a4aa-76c2e748f27a X-Archives-Hash: b306fede29fc802f0382188b5f7a57f4 Hi, I am asking, because I found not only one description of somehow complicated setups to compile a distribution (namely gentoo) for a platform "A" (Beaglebone TI OMAP4) on that platform with distcc to speedup things or with emulated chroot environments based on qemu... I thought it would be the easiest to compile the whole stuff on a host system "B" with a crosscompilation toolchain...but may be I have overlooked something important... So - is there any logical reason, which prevents the process of the compilation of a complete distribution/rootfs/boot-mechanism for a platform "A" on a hostsystem of the platform "B" if the cross compilation toolchain is already installed on "B" and no emulated environment is wanted? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc