Re: Gentoo on handhelds

On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 19:22 +0300, Vladimir Pouzanov wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working on linux port to Palm Tungsten T3 (arm-le) handheld.
> Development tasks slowly move from kernel-space to user-space so now
> I'm interested in some base distribution/packaging system for the
> handheld.
> 
> I'm choosing from gentoo-embedded, CRUX and OpenEmbedded. OE is
> targeted for handhelds but it has absolutely weird build system
> (however it is similar to portage... sometimes). CRUX is optimized for
> i686 and has no pre-requisites for cross-compilation but packages are
> rather easily compiled inside scratchbox environment. Gentoo... I
> haven't tried gentoo yet, but I'm doing to do so.
> 
> I want to know the current status of gentoo-embedded. Can I build a
> working rootfs based on uclibc using emerge?

You can build pretty much anything you want for any arch, cross 
or native.. Every so often when using uClibc you will encounter a pkg 
that depends on nls/iconv handling or so.. 
>From my personal experiences I've found that uClibc tends to be 
less problematic when cross compiling vs glibc.

What is lacking is the glue to make the root_fs itself. 
But that task tends to be easy enough (depending on desired fstype).

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