Re: Cross compiling RPMs

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:57:24PM -0800, Mike McDonald wrote:

>   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.

Really depends on what you want to do.  Many packages detect other packages
or features of other packages.  This builds a big evil network of
dependencies which make bootstrapping somewhat hard.  It's a good idea to
start with an as complete installation as possible.

>   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.

  Ralf