In this case a sysroot is just a copy of the important files for compiling built for the target system. It's also easier to just include a superset of the import files by grabbing pretty much everything.
There are a couple ways to do this, but I just created a case sensitive OS X volume and did and rsyncd the rpi to that volume.
There are a couple ways to do this, but I just created a case sensitive OS X volume and did and rsyncd the rpi to that volume.