On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:01 AM, <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I am asking, because I found not only one description of somehow > complicated setups to compile a distribution (namely gentoo) for a > platform "A" (Beaglebone TI OMAP4) on that platform with distcc to > speedup things or with emulated chroot environments based on qemu... > > I thought it would be the easiest to compile the whole stuff on a host > system "B" with a crosscompilation toolchain...but may be I have > overlooked something important...
Seems the best way to me, too. > So - is there any logical reason, which prevents the process of the > compilation of a complete distribution/rootfs/boot-mechanism for > a platform "A" on a hostsystem of the platform "B" if the cross > compilation toolchain is already installed on "B" and no emulated > environment is wanted? So you want to "install" the packages into a virtual filesystem image on the compiler machine to create a whole disk image for the target, basically? Hmmm. Maybe something like Scratchbox can help with this.
