From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 14:57:44 -0800 Received: from saturn.mikemac.com ([216.99.199.88]:62473 "EHLO saturn.mikemac.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 14:57:38 -0800 Received: from Saturn (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saturn.mikemac.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA05689; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 14:57:24 -0800 Message-Id: <200101272257.OAA05689@saturn.mikemac.com> To: Karel van Houten cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Cross compiling RPMs In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:52:05 +0100." <200101271052.LAA21268@sparta.research.kpn.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 14:57:24 -0800 From: Mike McDonald Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing >Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:52:05 +0100 (MET) >From: Karel van Houten >Subject: Re: Cross compiling RPMs >To: mikemac@mikemac.com (Mike McDonald) > >Mike wrote: >> >> If one were to go the native compiling route, what would the minimum >> set of rpms needed be? kernel, bin-utils, cc. file-utils? ??? >> > >It depends on what and how you want to compile. To use rpm, you need >quite a lot tools (db3, patch, sed, grep, find,...). Beside that >you'll at least need glibc, binutils, gcc, and make. But you'll find >out that you'll have to compile flex, bison, m4, automake, autoconf, >and even perl to get rpm builds going. My mipsel native environment >currently has the following packages: I was thinking of what the MINIMUM set of RPMs you needed installed so you could bootstrap a system up from sources, not what's the minimum needed to recompile any arbitrary RPM. >But you surely can start with less... :-) With less than 150 files installed in a root file system, I can install the bin-utils, gcc, make, and glibc RPMs. From there, I should be able to begin cross compiling the other basic RPMs for a system. That's my ultimate goal. Mike McDonald mikemac@mikemac.com