On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 12:25 +0300, Max Dmitrichenko wrote: > Hi! > > I use amd64 as host and want to build rootfs for i386 target. Use debootstrap to create an i386 chroot on your amd64 box. You do not need a cross compiler or toolchain. > I know > that i386 can hardly be considered as embedded platform, but at my > work we have such embedded systems based on i386 platform. > > Two questions: > 1) Is it the same as simply install Debian on i386? I guess > not, because Emdebian tries to avoid unnecessary packages > and other stuff, so I think this is what I want. > 2) Is such configuration supported? Not explicitly because it doesn't involve cross building the packages so most of the code in the scripts is simply not used. I have no idea if the rootfs packages will build for i386 when using the current Emdebian patches. emdebian-tools was improved during the Linz conference to have better support for native building (which is what amd64<->i386 actually is) but I've no idea if the built packages would work. > Because when I ran emsetup > it told me, that I need a toolchain for i386 but it can't be > build. I'll see if the emsetup script can be made more intelligent and detect when a toolchain is a waste of time. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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