H . J . Lu writes: >On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 09:26:20PM -0800, Ralf Baechle wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:08:06PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote: >> > > I don't know for sure just yet, the package takes a long time to compile. >> > > The last time I compiled the package it failed to build - whether it is d ue >> > > to the warnings or not I don't really know - maybe not. >> > libtool is very fragile. If it doesn't cause the failure, I won't touch >> > it. >> This bug may result in libraries not getting linked against certain other >> libraries thus DT_NEEDED entries missing. Frequently that's harmless but >> it breaks a few packages. I remember fixing this in a large number of >> RH 7.0 packages. >> >> Bug are rarely harmless just their consequences are subtle. yeah, the libtool thing is a pain, but realistically it's only been a problem for me on 2 or 3 out of many rpm builds. Still it'd be way cool if it was sorted out... >Ok. Please try >ftp://oss.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/redhat/7.1/SRPMS/libtool-1.3.5-8.3.src.rpm unfortunately this doesn't work. Same output as the orig 7.1 rpm or a stock newer libtool :-/ Does the latest kernel export endianess in /proc/cpuinfo? If so, then the latest rawhide rpm can be trivially modified to add mips* along with s390* support in the s390 patch and it seems to work for me. If your kernel doesn't export endianess, then you can specify it with (eg. for big endian) ./configure --host=mips-unknown-linux-gnu ... and libtool then works ok. Grab a patched for mips libtool srpm (+ big endian binary rpms (Indy)) from http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~rjh/mips/libtool/ Maybe someone can --rebuild the srpm on mipsel and see if it works too? cheers, robin
