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tenspd137
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 Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:19 am Post subject: Creating an embedded development environment[solved] |
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Hi all -
I hope this is the right place for this. I was reading the embedded handbook. I wanted to experiment with creating a cross compiler. I am just wondering if:
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To keep your Gentoo installation clean, we highly recommend that crossdev installation and all cross-compiling activities occur inside a Gentoo stage3 chroot.
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means that on my current system, I download a stage 3 tarball and install it somewhere, say
/mycrosscompiler
and then chroot into there and set up a cross compiler? Would that work? It certainly seems safer. Sorry if it seems like a dumb question, I was just trying to clarify as I interpreted it as basically setting up a smaller system within a system.
Thanks!
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BradN
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Yes, I think they recommend this because using crossdev installs lots of extra build tools under different ebuild names - it's not impossible to do this in your main system but cleaning everything out when you're done with a particular version is a bit of a mess.
As a bonus, you'll have a development (or at least cross compiling depending how much you install) environment that can run under other linux if needed without modifications. |
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tenspd137
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| Thanks - that helps a lot in planning - I am currently upgrading/changing my system to amd64, so I thought I would use it as an opportunity to clean up, but I just wanted to make sure I was reading the embedded development stuff corectly. |
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