Hi,
> > Actually, I think it'll be my cohort Alex who'll be building most of
> > them. He likes RPM in a way that's a little frightening (hi, Alex!). =)
>
> I am, yes, sitting on the edge of my seat for Mike to get the network
> working so I can have access to the machine. Mike's working on the
> network now to stop my endless pestering.
>
> The priority will be getting rpm itself to compile properly, although I
> don't anticipate any huge problems. I just need to tell it that
> Linux/mips exists, I suspect.
This and another one or two minor patches were required to make rpm
build on my machine.
> There's a large lump of joy in knowing that gcc/libc etc work properly.
> The rest is easy.
Trying to build and use a distribution will help us alot to find the bugs.
> > I can imagine. I'm not looking to be a distribution (yet). =)
>
> I suspect if we do a good enough job of porting the bulk of the RPMS that
> RedHat will take the effort seriously. There'll be a lot of RPMs to port,
> though...
Most of the changes we need to do are already covered by some other patch
files in the SRPMs. For example many packages already contain GNU libc
patches; in some packages the GNU libc patches are disguised as Alpha
patches. And GNU libc patches are 90% of what we need to patch.
Ralf
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