Thanks a lot. I have question about installation of the SRPMs, though. How can I relocate the packages, so they don't need to reside under /usr/src/redhat/ ? /Carsten "Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Carsten Langgaard wrote: > > > Now I would like to start cross compile SRPMs (let say redhat7.0). > > What do I need to do to make the SRPMS cross compile ? > > Spec files need to be written appropriately for cross-compilation to be > supported as you need to override the compiler used (and possibly other > tools) and configure scripts need to be passed a host system name. Also > depending on the cluefulness of a given maintainer/team, packages might be > easy or difficult to cross-compile -- heavy patching is required in some > cases. > > For the way I am using RPM to cross-compile you might visit my FTP site > at 'ftp://ftp.ds2.pg.gda.pl/pub/macro/' (mirrored at > 'ftp://ftp.rfc822.org/pub/mirror/ftp.ds2.pg.gda.pl/pub/macro' -- thanks, > Flo). There are source and binary packages as well as configuration files > I use. Read the READMEs and look at a few spec files and everything > should be clear. Many of the *.mipsel.rpm packages available there were > cross-built -- you may verify it with `rpm -qip': "macro" is my i386-linux > system, while "3maxp" is my mipsel-linux one (still no i386-linux > cross-compiler on my mipsel-linux system, sigh... :-( ). > > You need to build cross-binutils, cross-gcc and cross-glibc to start. > I've already written and sent a detailed description on cross-gcc > bootstrapping here. I'm not sure if the list is archived, or not. If > not, I may dig through my mail archives and send it again. > > If you have any specific questions, don't hesitate to ask me. > > Maciej > > -- > + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + > +--------------------------------------------------------------+ > + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available + -- _ _ ____ ___ Carsten Langgaard Mailto:carstenl@mips.com |\ /|||___)(___ MIPS Denmark Direct: +45 4486 5527 | \/ ||| ____) Lautrupvang 4B Switch: +45 4486 5555 TECHNOLOGIES 2750 Ballerup Fax...: +45 4486 5556 Denmark http://www.mips.com
