Re: 2.4.0-s390x progress

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>]

Neale.Ferguson@softwareAG-usa.com writes:

> I've been using the "Linux from Scratch" (LFS) document as a guide for building
> a basic Linux system. The only things I've done outside the instructions
> include:
> 
> 1. Built 32 bit version of binutils, gcc, glibc for s390x
> 2. Built kernel
> 3. Created /root64 and populated it with /usr /bin etc.
> 4. Built 64-bit libncurses
> 
> I've now built statically linked 64-bit versions of:
> 1. bash
> 2. bzip2
> 3. diffutils
> 4. fileutils
> 
> These are all installed in the /root64 tree.
> 
> According to the LFS instructions I should now build grep, gzip, make,
> sed, shellutils, tar, and textutils, before going onto the next phase.
> However, I cannot find grep, sed, or tar srpms on the SuSE CDs.

this is getting off-topic but from SuSE 7.1:

$ rpm -q -f `which grep`
base-2001.1.15-0

You'll find in the base rpm also the sources of sed and tar.

Hope this helps - and have fun with Linux on your small;-) machine,

Andreas
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