On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:16:05PM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote: > Could you add a Perl rpm to you distribution, this also seems to be needed to > build the RPMs natively. Perl has to be built natively. I uploaded mysql-3.23.36-1.1.src.rpm, perl-5.6.0-12.1.src.rpm, apache-1.3.19-5.src.rpm, mod_perl-1.24_01-2.src.rpm, tcsh-6.10-5.src.rpm and zsh-3.0.8-8.src.rpm. Just installed my RedHat 7.1. Then you can build perl yourself. You may need to build/install the tcsh rpm first. > > 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. You need my patched `rpm' to do cross build. You also need some specicial set up. I am enclosng a message of mine. I will see if I can cleanup my cross build environment and upload it. H.J. ----- > they work great! Thanks for all your hard work. Now, I would like > to be able to build some RPMs as well. I have never cross-built > RPMs before. I took the SRPMS for make and tried: > > rpm -ba make.spec --target=mipsel > > This did not do anything and built nothing. Is there a FAQ that > I can read on cross building RPMS in addition to the documentation > on http://www.rpm.org/ ? Do you have any quick pointers? Thanks > again. Although my source rpms do support cross compile, FYI, all my mips/mipsel rpms are cross compiled from ia32 machines, the unpatched rpm, that is /bin/rpm, doesn't support cross compile. In my RedHat 7.1, there are i386 rpm binaries which support cross compile. I have a setup to cross build rpms to mips/mipsel. Make sure your rpm sees %__ar %{_target_prefix}-linux-ar %__as %{_target_prefix}-linux-as %__cc %{_target_prefix}-linux-gcc %__cxx %{_target_prefix}-linux-c++ %__ld %{_target_prefix}-linux-ld %__nm %{_target_prefix}-linux-nm %__objcopy %{_target_prefix}-linux-objcopy %__objdump %{_target_prefix}-linux-objdump %__ranlib %{_target_prefix}-linux-ranlib %__strip %{_target_prefix}-linux-strip and do # rpm --target=mips --define '_target_prefix mips' or # rpm --target=mipsel --define '_target_prefix mipsel' BTW, you alao need to rebuild binutils with # rpm --define 'ENABLE_ALL_TARGETS 1' -ta binutils-2.11.90.0.23.tar.gz H.J.
