2008/11/20 Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 04:31:38PM +0900, Daniel Stonier wrote: >> But you end up with alot of cruft that way > > Look into INSTALL_MASK. It is true, though, that one of the things > Gentoo people tend to spend quite a bit of time at is stripping down > their images. :)
>> and the other problem is most ebuilds aren't set up to work with >> cross-compiling out of the box (lots of bugs), so xmerge falls over >> alot. > > I wouldn't say 'most'. Unfortunately a non-trivial chunk of the ones > that don't cross compile cleanly are ones that lots of people like to > have (notable examples include perl and python). On the other hand, > once you have a sane base system up, most packages should cross compile > with minimal trickery. > > If you're struggling to get a package to compile, you can always check > http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/ and see if anyone has left a package > for your target there. Oh, cheers!...Thanks for the information. Regards, Daniel Stonier.
