From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:35:46 -0700 Received: from gateway-490.mvista.com ([63.192.220.206]:20719 "EHLO hermes.mvista.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:35:42 -0700 Received: from mvista.com (IDENT:ppopov@zeus.mvista.com [10.0.0.112]) by hermes.mvista.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9RNY1303021; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:34:01 -0700 Message-ID: <39FA101C.4903F088@mvista.com> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:30:36 -0700 From: Pete Popov Organization: Monta Vista Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12-20b i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Baechle CC: Jun Sun , "linux-mips@oss.sgi.com" Subject: Re: userland packages References: <39F8CE01.3782BBF5@mvista.com> <20001027043432.F6628@bacchus.dhis.org> <39F9B7EF.D6469D07@mvista.com> <20001028012745.B2813@bacchus.dhis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing Ralf Baechle wrote: > > 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 ... Our cross development environment make it easy to rebuild all packages we support, but the big endian tool chain and libs aren't ready yet. I think I'll just wait :-) I've got plenty of things broken as it is, without the userland packages. > > 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 ... Pete