Re: [gentoo-user] crosscompiling...the point of view

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:01 AM,  <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> 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...

Seems the best way to me, too.

> 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?

So you want to "install" the packages into a virtual filesystem image
on the compiler machine to create a whole disk image for the target,
basically? Hmmm. Maybe something like Scratchbox can help with this.