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I am trying to compile Chromium for Raspberry PI. I am using an Ubuntu 10.10 installation, and have tried using Ubuntu 14.04 but all with the same result.

I followed all the steps in the link below.

How do I install Chrome OS?

Now everything works perfect up to the step for setting up the board. When I execute the command; 

$ ./setup_board --board=raspberrypi

Update

It seems I resolved the issue of the Thumb-1 hard float by calling: 

sudo emerge mpfr mpc gmp

Now the compilation still fails but with a different error

configure:5879: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o conftest -O2 -pipe    -Wl,-O2 -Wl,--as-needed  conftest.c  -lisl >&5
conftest.c:10:25: fatal error: isl/version.h: No such file or directory
 #include <isl/version.h>
                         ^
compilation terminated.

I understand that I am missing the ISL library. But when I try to do 

emerge isl

It says

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "isl".

How can I retrieve the ISL library?

Issue Before

The build starts and works untill it is unable to compile gcc-libs-4.8.2-r11. When I look in the config.log I see the following errors;

gcc version 4.8.x-google 20140307 (prerelease) (GCC)
configure:3358: $? = 0
configure:3347:  /build/raspberrypi/tmp/portage/sys-libs/gcc-libs-4.8.2-r11/work/build/./gcc/xgcc -B/build/raspberrypi/tmp/portage/sys-libs/gcc-libs-4.8.2-r11/work/build/./gcc/ -B/usr/armv6j-cros-$
xgcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
xgcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.

--

configure:3358: $? = 1
configure:3347:  /build/raspberrypi/tmp/portage/sys-libs/gcc-libs-4.8.2-r11/work/build/./gcc/xgcc -B/build/raspberrypi/tmp/portage/sys-libs/gcc-libs-4.8.2-r11/work/build/./gcc/ -B/usr/armv6j-cros-$
xgcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'
xgcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3358: $? = 1

-- 

configure:3374:  /build/raspberrypi/tmp/portage/sys-libs/gcc-libs-4.8.2-r11/work/build/./gcc/xgcc -B/build/raspberrypi/tmp/portage/sys-libs/gcc-libs-4.8.2-r11/work/build/./gcc/ -B/usr/armv6j-cros-$
conftest.c: In function 'main':
conftest.c:12:1: sorry, unimplemented: Thumb-1 hard-float VFP ABI
 {
 ^
configure:3377: $? = 1
configure:3565: checking for suffix of object files
error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile

What is causing these errors? How can I solve this problem, am I missing something? Do I need to compile on a different os? Can anybody point me in the right direction?

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I don't have an exact answer, but would also like to see a recent version of Chrome running on the pi. After having a lot of issues building with Debian / Raspbian, I gave it a try with archlinux. I got a lot farther. I followed Moonman's instructions and was able to get it to compile, but it was missing libavcodec.so.54 and some of the files that ffmpeg generates. I had them, but newer versions, like libavcodec.so.56 which were not compatible.

I also found the PKGBUILDs repo also has a customized build file in the extra/chromium directory which is supposed to work for arm6, but I'm also having trouble getting this to compile.

My next steps are to understand more about moonman's build method, and possibly build the older version of ffmpeg so it would satisfy the library requirement.

Although this isn't a complete and working solution it's the best I've been able to find so far for building a recent version of chrome on the pi.

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