On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Mike McDonald wrote:
> I want to do just the opposite. I want to start with the minimum set
> of installed binaries and build a complete binary distribution from
> its sources. (That means finding the root of the dependency graph and
> starting there, assuming there actually is one. It isn't necessarily a
> single rpm. People like to make circular dependancies!)
If you have another working Linux system, you may see what I have at
ftp://ftp.ds2.pg.gda.pl/pub/macro/. I built my mipsel-linux (not complete
yet, e.g. no perl nor X11) system from scratch, i.e. having no MIPS
binaries at all using my i386-linux build system. All RPM packages have
spec files with explicit "BuildRequires" dependencies -- you may find
from these what else is needed to build a particular package.
Only for binutils, gcc and glibc you would need: autoconf, automake,
bash, binutils, bzip2, diffutils, fileutils, findutils, flex, gawk, gcc,
gettext, glibc, grep, gzip, m4, make, patch, perl, rpm, sed, sh-utils,
texinfo, textutils. You may need additional software to compile some of
these. ;-)
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+ Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland +
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+ e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
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