Gentoo on Cubieboard

gentoo-on-cubieboard.md

Little how-to, written to remember later

For now first step is to get Arch Linux ARM running on Cubieboard.
SSH into Arch install, update u-boot.
Download ARMv7a HardFP version from https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/#arm.
Follow instructions from https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full/Installation.

Things to remember:

1. 'source /etc/profile' after chrooting, Arch uses different $PATH
2. Edit /etc/portage/make.conf:
   ACCEPT_KEYWORD="arm ~arm"
   CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=cortex-a8 -march=armv7-a -mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=hard"
   FEATURES="distcc distcc-pump"
   MAKEOPTS="-j1 -l1"
3. Update portage
4. Install and configure distcc:
   'distcc-config --set-hosts "192.168.168.2,cpp,lzo"'
   export PATH="/usr/lib/distcc/bin:${PATH}"
   // to make it permanent:
   echo 'PATH=/usr/lib/distcc/bin' > /etc/env.d/02distccpaths
   USE=crossdev OR follow wiki.gentoo.org -> Distcc cross-compiling

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Script to automate stuff will come later...