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Re: Cannot build 19990517 snapshot on LinuxPPC
- To: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- Subject: Re: Cannot build 19990517 snapshot on LinuxPPC
- From: Peter Nillius <nillius at nada dot kth dot se>
- Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 18:14:55 +0200 (MET DST)
- cc: law at cygnus dot com, egcs-bugs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Franz Sirl wrote:
>
> Peter, you should be able to download the DRR1 SRPM
> (binutils-2.9.1.0.990418-1c.src.rpm) from ftp.linuxppc.org and build it on
> your machine.
Thanks guys! I finally got it to work, but it was a long and windy
road.
I downloaded binutils-2.9.1.0.990418-1c.src.rpm as you said. After
I figured out how rpm works I started to build the package. But it
never got through the configuring stage. After having tried almost
everything else I figured out that my linker was too old for the
configuring script (!). So then I configured, build and installed the
linker manually. After that it worked... for a while.
At the file testing stage (rpm -bl <specs>) there was an error. I
succeded to figure out that it couldn't find the shared libraries
that were under the temporary installation directory
(/var/tmp/binutils...). So I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH apropriately and
installed manually (because rpm -bi <specs> will erase evrything and
build from scratch) and voila... It worked!
egcs-19990517 now compiles on my system (LinuxPPC R4.1).
Do you know, should I report the problems with the installation of
binutils as a bug or is just because it wasn't meant for my old
system?
Cheers,
Peter