Thanks Peter, I was confused when I installed latest 12.1.0 on an XO and issued "uname -a", to see the response come back armv7l, rather than armv7hl. I was thinking that yum would be confused by the difference.
I'm glad that the trimslice generated rpms I have will be usable. I'll need to learn how to override the default arch, so that yum will do what I want it to do. But I have google for that! Thanks for your help, George On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:42 AM, George Hunt <georgejh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > You probably know the answer to this question off the top of your head. > > > > I've played with fedora's Trimslice armv7hl, using it to recompile XS > rpms. > > Now in conversation with OLPC-Australia, I've agreed to try to apply my > > stuff to the XO-1.75 pre-release 12.1.0, which I believe is based upon > FC17. > > It is indeed, it's using the F-17 arm hardfp release. > > > Question: Is my easiest path to basically start over, either building up > a > > cross compiling tool chain, or maybe try to compile the XS rpms on an > armv7l > > machine natively, as I did with the TS, (the XO itself seems the obvious > > choice). > > If you have a trimslice why don't you use that and compile natively? > In Fedora everything is compiled natively with no cross-compilation. > > > I had trouble earlier getting a tool chain together to run on FC17, on > top > > if parallels, on my MAC. > > To be honest I've never cross compiled any ARM packages. > > > Do you have any advice? > > Compile natively :-) > > If you have a Trimslice, Pandaboard or even an XO 1.75 you can compile > on all of those using the standard distros. On any of the platforms > you can "yum install" or "yum groupinstall " anything you may need and > build directly. You might want to add an ext4 formatted usb HDD to use > as the storage for building on those platforms as they tend to be a > bit quicker than SD card storage. > > Peter >
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