Build in a chroot?
Yes if:
▸ the TDE installation directory exists on the build system,
▸ any of the packages being built exist on the build system, because they will be overwritten with arm versions.
-Set HOST for a 32-bit [armv7] or 64-bit [aarch64] build for the host system - RPi3 - for the TDE builds which use the original differentiation between build, host and target.
+Set HOST for a 32-bit [armv7] or 64-bit [aarch64] build for the host system - RPi3 - for the TDE builds which use the autotools differentiation between build, host and target.
## 32-bit - only tested for a hard float build
export HOST="arm-linux-gnueabihf"
@@ -612,20 +612,18 @@ export I18N=en_GB
export TDE_SRC=/path_to_${TDE_VERSION}_source_archives
export MISC_SRC=/path_to_misc_source_archives
-## where the Slackware packages a-y directories are:
+## Packages from Slarm64 have been used for the 64-bit build - download from a mirror site, for example slackware.uk
+## Set Slack_base where the Slackware/Slarm64 packages a-y directories are:
export Slack_base=/path_to_[Slackware_arm_current/Slarm64]_a-y_directories
## for SYSROOT location - option [2] in setting up the build environment
export SYSROOT_REPO=/path_to_[Slackware_arm_current/Slarm64]_libs_headers_installation_directory
-## ldconfig is not going to be used during arm packages installaion because it's an x86 binary,
-## nor is /etc/ld.so.conf going to be updated,
-## so use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to find libtqt-mt.so.3 during the build.
+## ldconfig is not going to be used during arm packages installaion because it's an x86 binary, nor is /etc/ld.so.conf going to be updated, so use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to find libtqt-mt.so.3 during the build.
## And add the location of the libstdc++, libssp etc. libs from the cross compiler.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$SYSROOT$TQTDIR/lib:$XGCC_DIR/$HOST/lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX
## The arm libs and headers needed for cross compiling need to be installed in SYSROOT.
-## Packages from Slarm64 have been used for the 64-bit build.
## They can be [1] directly installed to $SYSROOT if the cross compiler is to be a permanent addition to the system, otherwise [2] installed to a directory [$SYSROOT_REPO] which is bind-mounted to $SYSROOT:
## [2]:
mkdir -p $SYSROOT_REPO