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 C6C3B138A1C for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 21:31:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 392C2E0921; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 21:31:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from uberouter3.guranga.net (unknown [81.19.48.176]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E6B13E08B0 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 21:31:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.151.20] (unknown [213.233.148.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by uberouter3.guranga.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1E357224F for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 21:30:17 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <546D0C07.8000309@thegeezer.net> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 21:30:47 +0000 From: thegeezer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.8.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Booted Gentoo the first time on the Arietta.G25...but... References: <20141118182718.GA3971@solfire> <546BB375.70700@thegeezer.net> <7049154.xFAUFdujD1@andromeda> <20141119174428.GB4095@solfire> <3877A8FB-60D0-4F6A-89B7-9E37D276EF6D@antarean.org> <20141119181247.GB7825@solfire> In-Reply-To: <20141119181247.GB7825@solfire> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7e0490d8-9e55-4915-ad69-9029c2b4b47a X-Archives-Hash: ba5c5dc5b1f196d2122d3b3bc44bb074 On 19/11/14 18:12, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > Hi Joost, I tried that for the Beaglebone Black I also use. It will > not work constantly enough well to setup a complete system. There are > two sources for trouble: The makefiles access "meta-applications" like > moc fpr qt and either try to start a arm binary on my AMD64 PC or they > use moc of the AMD64 arch. and produce some rubbish from the point of > view of the ARM arch. (ok, moc is bad example, since it is platform > idenpendant regarding ist outout I think, but...) Or: The software > isn't written that clean and import low level headers (kernel...) of > the AMD64 platform into the ARM compilation results. I also tried > distcc and it does not work for me. May be its me or distcc. The > results were..."mixed"... Since that I compile all the stuff (accept > the kernel itsself because it is "self contained") on the target > itsself. With the beaglebone black this only a matter of waiting (not > THAT long: 1GHz CPU single core with 512MB RAM and an mobile hd). With > that tiny Arietta and await waiting for days until I have a system of > my choice. But that is ok, since the main purpose of this tiny Linux > thingy is only the steering of some electronics. Nothing fancy... So I > need only a few addtional applications. But the beaglebone black is > acapble enough to run SIMH emulating a PDP11 with an ancient UNIX > (with an original login of Dennis Ritchie ;) at 100% "original speed". > Or an ATARi800 emulator (also at 100% original speed). Or other nice > things... :) Best regards, Meino if you are having difficulty with [1] then you could always have an emulator running on real hardware, doing distcc. you can set distcc to do no compiling locally by excluding localhost. then you can have your multi cores running happily within a virtualbox doing nothing more than compiling for the limited arm device. on the virtualbox device, if you then ensure to have in /etc/portage/make.conf FEATURES="buildpkg" then you get binary packages for free. this means that if something goes wrong with the the device or you want to do this again on another device you can use emerge -K (as long as you set the package location in advance of course) and the hours of compiling become copy, untar, install [1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distcc/Cross-Compiling