Mike wrote: > > If one were to go the native compiling route, what would the minimum > set of rpms needed be? kernel, bin-utils, cc. file-utils? ??? > It depends on what and how you want to compile. To use rpm, you need quite a lot tools (db3, patch, sed, grep, find,...). Beside that you'll at least need glibc, binutils, gcc, and make. But you'll find out that you'll have to compile flex, bison, m4, automake, autoconf, and even perl to get rpm builds going. My mipsel native environment currently has the following packages: MAKEDEV-3.0.6-5 gcc-c++-2.95.3-14 newt-devel-0.50.17-1 SysVinit-2.78-10 gcc-libstdc++-2.95.3-14 pam-0.72-26 XFree86-4.0.1-1lm gdbm-1.8.0-5 patch-2.5.4-4 XFree86-devel-4.0.1-1lm gdbm-devel-1.8.0-5 perl-5.6.0-9 XFree86-libs-4.0.1-1lm gettext-0.10.35-23 popt-1.6-4lm autoconf-2.13-9 glib-1.2.8-4 pwdb-0.61.1-1 automake-1.4-8 glib-devel-1.2.8-4 python-1.5.2-27 basesystem-7.0-2 glibc-2.1.97-1 python-devel-1.5.2-27 bash-2.04-11 glibc-devel-2.1.97-1 python-tools-1.5.2-27 bc-1.05a-13 gmp-3.0.1-5 readline-4.1-5 bdflush-1.5-14 gmp-devel-3.0.1-5 readline-devel-4.1-5 binutils-2.10.1-3 gpm-1.19.3-4 rpm-4.0-4lm binutils-libs-2.10.1-3 gpm-devel-1.19.3-4 rpm-build-4.0-4lm bison-1.28-5 grep-2.4.2-4 sed-3.02-8 byacc-1.9-16 groff-1.16-7 sh-utils-2.0-11 bzip2-1.0.1-3 gtk+-1.2.8-7 slang-1.4.1-5 bzip2-devel-1.0.1-3 gtk+-devel-1.2.8-7 slang-devel-1.4.1-5 cpio-2.4.2-20 gzip-1.3-6 tar-1.13-4 db1-1.85-4 info-4.0-15 tcl-8.3.1-46 db1-devel-1.85-4 ldconfig-1.9.5-16 tcllib-0.4-46 db2-2.4.14-4 libelf-0.7.0-3 termcap-11.0.1-3 db2-devel-2.4.14-4 libelf-devel-0.7.0-3 texinfo-4.0-15 db3-3.1.14-6lm libpng-1.0.8-1 textutils-2.0e-8 db3-devel-3.1.14-6lm libpng-devel-1.0.8-1 tix-4.1.0.6-46 db3-utils-3.1.14-6lm libtermcap-2.0.8-25 tk-8.3.1-46 dev-3.0.6-5 libtermcap-devel-2.0.8- tkinter-1.5.2-27 diffutils-2.7-21 libtool-1.3.4-3lm unzip-5.41-3 fileutils-4.0x-3 m4-1.4.1-3 utempter-0.5.2-4 findutils-4.1.5-4 make-3.79.1-5 vim-common-5.7-6 flex-2.5.4a-11 ncurses-5.1-2 vim-minimal-5.7-6 gawk-3.0.6-1 ncurses-devel-5.1-2 zlib-1.1.3-12 gcc-2.95.3-14 newt-0.50.17-1 zlib-devel-1.1.3-12 But you surely can start with less... :-) -- Karel van Houten ---------------------------------------------------------- The box said "Requires Windows 95 or better." I can't understand why it won't work on my Linux computer. ----------------------------------------------------------
