On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:59:25PM -0000, Martin Whitaker wrote:
With regards to compiling... I've given up with cross compiling - I got fed up with little things taking hours of faffing to make work. Chris Steel (also on this mailing list) provided me with a cross compiled rootfs containing gcc-4.1.1 and glibc-2.5 for native building (although I guess you could get buildroot to provide you with this - there certainly has been a working E3 buildroot config at some point). I mount the rootfs over an NFS mount (from bootup using root=nfs nfsroot=...) and also enable swap over NFS (it sounds worse than it is). I then configure and build everything natively.
Any chance of making the rootfs available?
Most packages configure and compile in under a couple of hours, and so far very few packages have required any changes to get them to build properly. Chris suggested I get distcc running to speed things up a bit, so far I haven't felt the need though.
I'm not saying this is the best way of donig things, however it suits me and keeps it all at a level I can still understand :-)
It certainly sounds like an interesting and fairly simple for a beginnner like me to get to grips with :)
Thanks,
Dave
-- David Reynolds david@reynoldsfamily.org.uk