On Jan 10, 2008 11:57 PM, Kurtis Heimerl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been working on cross compiling a particular software package, and > that's working just fine with the tools and direction given by the wiki. > > However, there's a python API it presents, which requires compiling a python > module. This, I cannot seem to get working, and i've been struggling for a > while. I understand this to be a limitation of python, as most of the > reading I've found says it's really difficult to cross compile. I don't > feel I'm at the level to modify the setup.py script enough to cross compile > correctly, and so I am at an impasse. > > I decided to investigate compiling natively, as a solution to this. Python > is installed, so that stage should be easy. Likewise, there is a GCC package > in the repository, so the C portion shouldn't be difficult either. However, > there seems to be no assembler (as) in the repository at all. This seems > like nonsense, though the linker (LD) is missing as well. Why is this? Have > I just been unable to find these programs?
Install task-base-dev, which will pull in everything you need; but you will need some extra space. What I did was 1.) format a micro SD card as ext3 2.) cp -a /usr/* /media/card 3.) modify /etc/fstab to mount it as /usr /dev/mmcblk0p1 /usr ext3 defaults,noatime 0 0 4.) reboot and install everything you like :-) Since the old /usr is still sitting there unmodified, it's reversible... just leave out the card when you boot, then fix fstab to mount the card at /media/card again. Only if some packages installed files in other places besides /usr, they will still be there, but that hasn't been an issue for me. I think it's also possible to boot from a micro SD card, if you have the entire root fs installed on it, but I haven't tried that. [fic-gta01][08:52:08 PM] which as /usr/bin/as
