"H . J . Lu" wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:26:32PM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote: > > "H . J . Lu" wrote: > > > > Now I would like to try to install H.J. Lu's RedHat7.1 RPM packages. > > > > If I just do a: > > > > rpm -Uvh --root /mnt/harddisk *.rpm > > > > > > Those rpms have to be installed in the right order. I have a set up > > > to do that. I will see what I can do. > > > > Thanks, please do. > > They are in install.tar.bz2 now. Thanks a lot, that look like something we have been needing for a long time > > Another thing, I can see your distribution is lacking kernel header > > files, I guess they are needed to do a native compile of the source RPMs. > > I added gdb and kernel-headers. I also updated gcc, glibc and binutils. > The toolchain rpms are updated. Now that I'm at it :-) Could you add a Perl rpm to you distribution, this also seems to be needed to build the RPMs natively. I also would like to do a cross build, but how do I do that ? Do I have to change all the spec files, to set the target arch to MIPS, or is there a easier and better way to do that ? I guess if I just install the SRPMs and the cross toolchain, and try to build out of that I will simply build for the build platform, which is i386. > > > H.J. > ------ > My mini-port of RedHat 7.1 is at > > ftp://oss.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/redhat/7.1/ > > you should be able to put a small RedHat 7.1 on the mips/mipsel box and > compile the rest of RedHat 7.1 yourselves. > > Here are something you should know: > > 1. The cross compiler hosted on RedHat 7.1/ia32 is provided as a > toolchain rpm. The binary rpms for the mips and mipsel cross compilers > are included. You will need glibc 2.2.3-11 or above to use those > rpms. The glibc x86 binary rpms under RPMS/i386 should be ok. > 2. You have to find a way to put those rpms on your machine. I use > network boot and NFS root to do it. > 3. install.tar.bz2 has some scripts to prepare NFS root and install > RedHat 7.1 on a hard drive. > > Thanks. > > H.J.
