From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4V3MinC016323 for ; Thu, 30 May 2002 20:22:44 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4V3MiL7016322 for linux-mips-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 2002 20:22:44 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g4V3MbnC016319 for ; Thu, 30 May 2002 20:22:37 -0700 Received: from ocean.lucon.org ([12.234.143.38]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020531032406.FQXQ29266.sccrmhc01.attbi.com@ocean.lucon.org> for ; Fri, 31 May 2002 03:24:06 +0000 Received: by ocean.lucon.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AEE2B125C3; Thu, 30 May 2002 20:24:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 20:24:04 -0700 From: "H . J . Lu" To: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Announce RedHat 7.3 for mips/mipsel Message-ID: <20020530202404.A13170@lucon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk My mini-port of RedHat 7.3 is at ftp://oss.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/redhat/7.3/ It has both mips (big endian) and mipsel (little endian) binary rpms. You should be able to put a small RedHat 7.3 on the mips/mipsel box and compile the rest of RedHat 7.3 yourselves. Here are something you should know: 1. The cross compiler hosted on RedHat 7.3/x86 is provided as the toolchain rpm. The binary rpms for the mips and mipsel cross compilers are included. This toolchain is a combination of gcc, binutils, gdb and glibc. It is packaged for the cross compiling. It allows you to cross compile to RedHat 7.3/mips/mipsel from a RedHat 7.3/x86 host. 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. baseline.tar.bz2 contains the cross build tree. You may need to install i386 rpm binary included here to rebuild mips/mipsel rpms on an x86 host. The "installer" directory has a simple installer, which can be used to prepare NFS root and install RedHat 7.3/mips/mipsel on a hard drive. 4. Since everything is cross compiled from x86, which is little endian, many data files for mips, which is big endian, are either missing or wrong. To get those data files for mips, you have to rebuild/install the folowing rpms: cracklib glibc natively on Linux/mips. 5. You should build/install perl rpm natively on your newly installed mips/mipsel box. Thanks. H.J.