PowerPC Port.

[Geoff Keating]

Ryan <ryan@underways.yi.org> writes:

> I am using a PowerPC 750 G3, I am not sure who is in charge of thiss port,
> This is a PowerMAC G3 Mini Tower, Grey, when you try to compile the
> computer on LinuxPPC 5.0 it does not work it says the system type is:
> powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu where on R5, glibC2.1 based system, it's
> powerpc-redhat-linux (i think)  but gcc-2.95.1 does not work at all
> it gets to the part testing gcc then it says "no" then it does some stuff
> and does it agian, says "no" -- I am not sure what's wrong, but it will
> not compile correctly..
> 
> Thank you, and have a nice day! :)

It sounds like you don't have the original compiler installed.  You
need to have a compiler to compile gcc with.  As David said, you can
get RPMs of 2.95.1 for this system.

powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu is a correct configure name for this system.

gcc-2.95.1 works on my G3 powerbook just fine.

-- 
Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>