On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Mike McDonald wrote: > I want to do just the opposite. I want to start with the minimum set > of installed binaries and build a complete binary distribution from > its sources. (That means finding the root of the dependency graph and > starting there, assuming there actually is one. It isn't necessarily a > single rpm. People like to make circular dependancies!) If you have another working Linux system, you may see what I have at ftp://ftp.ds2.pg.gda.pl/pub/macro/. I built my mipsel-linux (not complete yet, e.g. no perl nor X11) system from scratch, i.e. having no MIPS binaries at all using my i386-linux build system. All RPM packages have spec files with explicit "BuildRequires" dependencies -- you may find from these what else is needed to build a particular package. Only for binutils, gcc and glibc you would need: autoconf, automake, bash, binutils, bzip2, diffutils, fileutils, findutils, flex, gawk, gcc, gettext, glibc, grep, gzip, m4, make, patch, perl, rpm, sed, sh-utils, texinfo, textutils. You may need additional software to compile some of these. ;-) -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
