Am Mittwoch, 1. Juli 2020, 03:30:59 CEST schrieb Thomas Mueller: > > > That's what I did: I found a 2017 stage3 with a still older glibc and > > > managed to upgrade to a 2020 gentoo while masking the last glibc > > > versions. That was tricky because I had to git-checkout intermediate > > > versions of the portage tree in order to deal with the EAPI changes but > > > I have a working chroot now. Thanks. > > > > That's the easy way to do it, yes. > > > > The hard way is to treat this as a cross-compilation problem and bootstrap > > your own stages from scratch. Instructions would be a bit longer... > > > > Andreas K. Hüttel > > I have looked through crossdev. Is that what it would take to cross-compile > and bootstrap stages from scratch? > > Could that be done from (instead of an old glibc) musl, uClibc, or FreeBSD > or NetBSD?
It could be done from anywhere to anywhere in principle. (Like, building an old-glibc x86 stage on an arm64 machine...) This is how I bootstrapped the first riscv stages. (Yes I know we need newer ones...) But I don't claim it was a straightforward process. Took some time. -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
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