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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

buildroot on Gentoo Linux

Hello, all. This is my first post, so please be patient with me ;-) I'm using Gentoo Linux, and trying to build the nios2 toolchain using yesterday's snapshot buildroot. As a ...
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20 years ago

Welcome.

Vapier, one of the developer of buildroot/uclibc/busybox, also develope Gentoo Linux.

He had helped a lot to port Nios2. So it should work with Gentoo.

But the configuration setting may be tricky and some latest update may break Nios2.

So you might follow my buildroot guide, and take the build script and patches as a starting point.

http://forum.niosforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3174 (http://forum.niosforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3174)

Happy hacking.

Hippo