Re: Updates on RedHat 7.1/mips

[Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>]

"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.