From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:28:26 -0700 Received: from u-162.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de ([62.180.18.162]:17671 "EHLO u-162.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:28:06 -0700 Received: (ralf@lappi) by lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de id ; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 01:27:45 +0200 Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 01:27:45 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Jun Sun Cc: Pete Popov , "linux-mips@oss.sgi.com" Subject: Re: userland packages Message-ID: <20001028012745.B2813@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <39F8CE01.3782BBF5@mvista.com> <20001027043432.F6628@bacchus.dhis.org> <39F9B7EF.D6469D07@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <39F9B7EF.D6469D07@mvista.com>; from jsun@mvista.com on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:14:23AM -0700 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:14:23AM -0700, Jun Sun wrote: > He is not telling the truth. :-) See his very own MIPS-HOWTO, > cross-compile section : > > http://www.linux.sgi.com/mips-howto.html So you probably never tried to crosscompile something with extensive autoconf scripts like Gnome. It's a major pain to get that done right. Running the compiler is the trivial part of build some package ... > Also, you can take a look of the rpm spec files for the toolchains I put > on ftp.mvista.com/pub/Area51/mips_le/. So far all my usrland stuff are > cross-compiled - I don't have the luxury of a desktop MIPS with 1.6GB > RAM. I bet your heating makes less noise ... Ralf