Re: EGCS on Mipsel?

[Greg <damin at cleveland dot lug dot net>]

On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Robert Lipe wrote:

> > 	I'm heading up a development project to port RedHat 5.2 to the
> > Cobalt Qube/RAQ servers. These run the Mipsel architecture. We're about
> > 50% through the project, but a significant amount of the SRPMS are
> > requiring egcs to build. We do NOT have a working egcs RPM at this time.
> >
> > Has anyone been successful at getting egcs to compile and work on a Cobalt
> > Qube/RAQ product?
> 
> I've never seen a Linux/MIPS system, but I've used the GNU tools on
> embedded mipsel targets for about 6 years.  For a long time, I suspected
> I was the *only* user of little endian MIPS targets. :-) On the premise
> that you must have had some sort of GCC-like substance ported to this
> system in order to get this far, it should be "merely" a matter of
> backstitching the configuration from that version stuff into the current
> version and getting it committed.
> 
> If you can grant clock cycles, disk space, and remote telnet/rlogin/ssh
> access to an appropriate system (esp. if CVS access to the EGCS tree is
> available) I can try to help you make it go.
> 
> Privately, we can work out the details like *which* mips processor is in
> use, last version of EGCS/GCC known to work, where your current compiler
> came from, etc...

An account on the machine will be forthcoming in a private E-mail. :)

As for the information, the machine is a Cobalt Qube designed by Coablt
Microserver http://www.cobaltmicro.com. The CPU identifies itself as;

[root@acct /proc]# more cpuinfo
cpu                     : MIPS
cpu model               : Nevada V1.0
system type             : Cobalt Microserver 27
BogoMIPS                : 149.50
byteorder               : little endian
unaligned accesses      : 6977910
wait instruction        : yes
microsecond timers      : yes
extra interrupt vector  : yes
hardware watchpoint     : no

Here's a list of RPM packages that are installed;

setup-1.7-3C7
filesystem-1.3.1-2
basesystem-4.9-1
glibc-2.0.4-C4
MAKEDEV-2.2-11
SysVinit-2.71-3
termcap-9.12.6-6
libtermcap-2.0.8-6
grep-2.0-6
bash-1.14.7-2
fileutils-3.16-3
info-3.9-5
textutils-1.22-2
CGI.pm-2.36-1
GD-1.15-1
GIFgraph-0.90-4
apache-admin-1.2.5-7
apache-1.2.5-6
bdflush-1.5-6
bind-4.9.5p1-3
bind-utils-4.9.5p1-3
binutils-2.8.1-1C1
bison-1.25-2
bootpc-061-3
cgiwrap-1.0-1
cpio-2.4.2-5
cracklib-2.5-2
cracklib-dicts-2.5-2
crontabs-1.5-2C1
dev-2.5.2-1
dhcpcd-0.65-1
dhcpd-5.16-4C1
diffutils-2.7-7
discuss-1.0-17
docorg-1.1-3
libtiff-3.4-4
file-3.22-6
findutils-4.1-13
finger-0.10-2
ftp-0.10-1
gawk-3.0.2-2
gcc-2.7.2-C1
gcc-c++-2.7.2-C1
gcc-objc-2.7.2-C1
getty_ps-2.0.7j-2
glibc-debug-2.0.4-C4
glibc-devel-2.0.4-C4
glibc-profile-2.0.4-C4
glimpse-4.0-4
gzip-1.2.4-9
hdparm-3.1-3
imap-4.1.BETA-6C1
initscripts-cobalt-1.0-4
kernel-2.0.33-C12
kernel-headers-2.0.33-C12
less-321-4
libtermcap-devel-2.0.8-6
logrotate-2.3-4
m4-1.4-7
mailx-5.5.kw-7
gdbm-1.7.3-17
mktemp-1.4-2
mount-2.7f-1C1
ncurses-1.9.9e-5C1
ncurses-devel-1.9.9e-5C1
net-tools-1.33-2
netatalk-1.4b2-1C5
netkit-base-0.10-2
nfs-server-2.2beta16-8
nfs-server-clients-2.2beta16-8
pam-0.57-3
panel-utils-1.0-21
rpm-devel-2.5.5-5.2
ircii-4.4-4
Net-Ping-2.02-1
portmap-4.0-4
procmail-3.10-11
procps-1.2.2-2
psmisc-16-1
quota-1.55-5C1
cobalt-release-1.0-1
flex-2.5.4a-3
samba-1.9.18p2-C6
sed-2.05-7
qpopper-2.3-1C1
sendmail-8.8.7-11
sendmail-cf-8.8.7-10
sendmail-doc-8.8.7-10
sh-utils-1.16-6C1
special-sauce-2.5-2
strace-3.1-4
sysklogd-1.3-16
tar-1.11.8-13C1
tcp_wrappers-7.5-2
telnet-0.10-1
texinfo-3.9-5
time-1.7-2
tmpwatch-1.2-2
ui-2.3-31
upgrade-1.0-7
util-linux-2.7-5C2
vim-4.5-3
vixie-cron-3.0.1-15
which-1.0-6
wu-ftpd-2.4.2b15-2
web-stat-1.0-4
gpm-devel-1.13-6
libpng-devel-1.0.1-5
libpng-1.0.1-5
fetchmail-4.4.4-2
zlib-1.1.2-2
zlib-devel-1.1.2-2
slang-0.99.38-4
slang-devel-0.99.38-4
gpm-1.13-6
ssh-1.2.25-1us
ssh-clients-1.2.25-1us
ssh-server-1.2.25-1us
ssh-extras-1.2.25-1us
patch-2.5-2
pine-3.96-8
ncftp-2.4.3-3
make-3.76.1-3
pwdb-0.54-8
gettext-0.10.35-3
popt-1.1.1-2
gdbm-devel-1.7.3-17
rpm-2.5.5-5.2
libelf-0.6.4-2
shadow-utils-980403-4
e2fsprogs-1.12-2
e2fsprogs-devel-1.12-2
libtiff-devel-3.4-4
perl-5.004_04-1
screen-3.7.4-3
autoconf-2.12-6
automake-1.3-2
byacc-1.9-8
readline-2.2.1-1
readline-devel-2.2.1-1
unzip-5.31-3
jed-0.98.4-6