Code review comment for ~dirk.zimoch/epics-base:raspberryPi

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Dirk Zimoch (dirk.zimoch) wrote :

> I hadn't come across https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools previously. Having
> seen it, I don't think I would ever use it!
>
> Judging by the (3 year old) commit message, these binaries are from a
> crosstool-ng built, not the native raspbian. ABI mis-matches with the raspian
> toolchain are to be expected.

There is a comment about readline in the file.

>
> fyi. seeing linking issues involving libtinfo.so is a sign of mixing debian
> and non-debian builds of readline.
>
> If you use this toolchain then imo. full static linking (including libc) is a
> must!
>
> If interop with raspbian libs is desirable, then I'd suggest looking at QEMU
> user mode emulation to run the hosted toolchain.
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi/qemu-user-static

This was the "official" cross tool chain, AFAIK.

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