by DavidYon » Mon Aug 15, 2011 1:00 am
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WarheadsSE', 'S')eriously: READ THE DAMN GUIDES.
Been there, done that. But I guess you need proof. Ok:
http://archlinuxarm.org/developers/abs is a general overview of the repo's, the build tools, etc. Assumes you are building on a plug. READ MY DAMN POST, I WANT TO BUILD AN ARM BINARY ON AN x86 MACHINE.
http://archlinuxarm.org/developers/building-kernels tells us you how to build kernels. ON A PLUG. And I'm not building a kernel.
http://archlinuxarm.org/developers/building-packages tells us how to build packages. ON A PLUG. See above.
http://archlinuxarm.org/developers/distcc-cross-compiling tells us how to use distcc to cross-compile. BUT THE MASTER IS A PLUG. See my first post find out that I read this already, and knew that it REQUIRES A PLUG.
http://archlinuxarm.org/developers/distributed-compiling looks incomplete. It talks about how to set up distributed compiling. Doesn't explicitly mention whether the build system is hosted on a plug or not. I would assume so given all the other information on the site.
http://archlinuxarm.org/developers/downloads tells us where to get the source for the current Arch Linux ARM releases. Nothing mentioned here about cross-compilation.
http://archlinuxarm.org/developers/github is more of the same, except it tells us how to use github.
So that about covers it in the "Developers" section of the main web site. Now, how about those links in the "Support" section. Let's see:
http://archlinuxarm.org/support/guides is just basic how-to-install-stuff. Nothing here to answer my original question.
http://archlinuxarm.org/support/faq is the FAQ. Apparently my question isn't asked frequently enough.
http://archlinuxarm.org/support/irc links to the IRC channel. Maybe I'd have better luck there than the forum?
Huh. That's wierd. Nothing helpful there either.
Oh, maybe you meant "The Guides" in the forum. Well, let's check those out (can't link to them directly since I'll use up my 10-URL limit)...
"Community Guides" doesn't answer my question.
"User Questions" has many more threads, the only one that mentions cross-compilation points back to the page that says I have to have a Plug as a master build node.
I'll stop there, since nothing else has anything obviously relevant by casual inspection. When I search the forums, the closest thing I find is references to Qemu, but also that it (a) sucks, and (b) is deprecated.
So, oh wise yet impatient one, where is this Guide that you speak of? It is neither linked from the top-level of the web site, nor the forums, nor can it be easily found by search.