On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 10:58:55PM +0000, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> Sorry for the length of this but you really need to consider the bigger
> picture with this stuff and not all devs are familiar with it.
>
> For EAPI 7, mgorny and I are seeking to address some cross-compiling
> issues. This is a subject I've long had an interest in and before I
> became a developer, I created a project called cross-boss that, to be
> blunt, hacks its way through the shortcomings in Portage and the tree.
> It does (or at least did when I last worked on it) achieve a higher
> success rate than you would get from crossdev alone and allows you to
> install a brand new standalone system from scratch as opposed to one
> under /usr/${CHOST}.
>
> I have heard some developers say that cross-compiling is simply not
> worth the effort but I have succeeded in building some big ticket items
> including MariaDB, GTK+, Qt4, and LibreOffice. This is one area where
> Gentoo can really shine so I would like to exploit that potential.
Thanks for the nice write up.
I've been using a prefix installation (no root privileges to use Gentoo)
and Intel compilers with Portage to cross compile stuff for the Xeon Phi[1].
For the most part I've just hacked my way into making things work, but
it would be cool to get a project going to do this properly.
Cheers,
—Guilherme
[1] https://software.intel.com/en-us/mic-developer
