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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:17 pm    Post subject: Gentoo + ARM - how to start? Reply with quote

Hello!
I was using openwrt linux on my at91sam board. And now I'm thinking about installing gentoo on arm9 based uc with my own-created board. I've got few questions - is there any list of supported by gentoo MCU's? Which crosscompiler should I use? and how to transfer files from my computer to uc?
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 3:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a Pi, which I think is an ARM 6. I haven't done so yet, but I want to get Gentoo on it. Not sure how much this applies to what you want to do but you could check out this wiki as a starting point: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 4:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The wiki page says:

Quote:
root # crossdev -S -v -t armv6j-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi

If you get any errors or portage warnings here, please fix them.


But I get the following error:

Quote:
* please convert /etc/portage/package.keywords to a directory


From what I've read it seems like this can be a directory, rather than a file. But does it contain subdirectories, or is it simple filenames for each entry which usually resides in the file. In that case does the filename contain slashes?
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 5:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

pgu,

I'm not sure if subdirs work or not.
rename your existing /etc/portage/package.keywords to /etc/portage/package.keywords_file
make a dir called /etc/portage/package.keywords and move /etc/portage/package.keywords_file into it.

The idea is that every file in /etc/portage/package.keywords is processed and you can use files to group things together.
Most of the files in /etc/portage have become directories. Crossdev puts make.conf there too, for the cross environment.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 7:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks, crossdev worked when I made directories for package.keywords and package.use.

I would expect to find more info about the directory alternative for the files in the portage man page, but I did not...
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't seem to run the binaries built using my crossdev tools on my Gentoo system, but it works on my Debian system:

Gentoo:
Code:
# ./hello
-bash: ./hello: No such file or directory
# file ./hello
./hello: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.16, not stripped
# uname -srvmpio
Linux 3.1.9+ #90 Wed Apr 18 18:23:05 BST 2012 armv6l ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l) BCM2708 GNU/Linux
# cat /etc/gentoo-release
Gentoo Base System release 2.1


Debian:
Code:
# ./hello
hello pi
# file ./hello
./hello: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.16, not stripped
# uname -srvmpio
Linux 3.1.9+ #90 Wed Apr 18 18:23:05 BST 2012 armv6l unknown unknown GNU/Linux
# cat /etc/debian_version
6.0.4
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 1:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

pgu,

The linker on a native ARM system is called
Code:
/lib/ld-2.16.so
or whatever your version of glibc is.
To keep binaries happy, there is also a symlink
Code:
 /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3


However, the Gentoo crossdev toolchain built binaries look for ld as
Code:
/lib/ld-linux.so.3
, which is missing.
You need to make a symlink like
Code:
/lib/ld-linux.so.3 -> ld-linux-armhf.so.3
on your target system
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