Re: Toolchains

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:41:14AM -0700, James Simmons wrote:

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The toolchain in my RedHat 7.1 mips port is as good as the x86 version
for RedHat 7.1. Since there is no mips maintainer for gcc, many
mips patches aren't reviewed. But they are in my mips toolchain.

Where are they? On the oss.sgi.com site.

My mini-port of RedHat 7.1 is at

ftp://oss.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/redhat/7.1/

you should be able to put a small RedHat 7.1 on the mips/mipsel box and
compile the rest of RedHat 7.1 yourselves.

Here are something you should know:

1. The cross compiler hosted on RedHat 7.1/ia32 is provided as a
toolchain rpm. The binary rpms for the mips and mipsel cross compilers
are included. You will need glibc 2.2.3-11 or above to use those
rpms. The glibc x86 binary rpms under RPMS/i386 should be ok.
2. You have to find a way to put those rpms on your machine. I use
network boot and NFS root to do it.
3. install.tar.bz2 has some scripts to prepare NFS root and install
RedHat 7.1 on a hard drive.

Thanks.


H.J.