From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Mundt Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:08:26 +0000 Subject: Re: [Fwd: Gentoo install] Message-Id: <20080715090826.GD23440@linux-sh.org> List-Id: References: <1216070824.6459.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1216070824.6459.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:27:04PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > apologies sent this to the SF list by mistake. I know this isn't a > kernel issue but i suspect the real knowledge of how to do this is > here... > > Is there a guide anywhere to how I can install gentoo on my Dreamcast? > > I have got a stage 3 tarball and installed the latest portage snapshot, > but it seems like madness to me to try to compile packages natively and > I have read fragmentary emails suggesting that I can get some sort of > x-compile system up and running. > > But I cannot find anything coherent that explains how to do it? Any > clues/experience? > What you are probably going to end up having to do is stick with binary distributions of the packages anyways. While you can toss everything over the fence to a cross-compiler on a slightly less neutered host, you are still going to run in to a world of pain on the target side with things like updating the portage cache.