Re: Updates on RedHat 7.1/mips

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:29:02PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:16:05PM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote:
> > Could you add a Perl rpm to you distribution, this also seems to be needed 
> > to
> > build the RPMs natively.
> 
> Perl has to be built natively. I uploaded mysql-3.23.36-1.1.src.rpm,
> perl-5.6.0-12.1.src.rpm, apache-1.3.19-5.src.rpm,
> mod_perl-1.24_01-2.src.rpm, tcsh-6.10-5.src.rpm and
> zsh-3.0.8-8.src.rpm. Just installed my RedHat 7.1. Then you can build
> perl yourself. You may need to build/install the tcsh rpm first.

It's not yet available for MIPS (later this week), but MontaVista Journeyman
contains the patches to cross-compile Perl.  It's not pretty, though.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer