Thanks Niels, I've managed to compile the watchdog daemon for it. I don't really think I'll be trying anything else more complex or unportable. Postgres is a maybe, and some ppp dialer stuff. You've helped immensely.
John O. On Jun 28, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Niels Horn wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:07 PM, John Oyler <[email protected]> wrote: >> I used the instructions for formatting and configuring partitions on my SD >> card from the Angstrom Linux distribution. After getting that working, I >> decided to be a little bit bolder... I wiped the ext2 partition, and >> installed the Slackware minirootfs. >> >> It booted just fine. While I'm not ready to try to compile the kernel for >> the Beagle (supposedly there are a ton of patches), I did copy Angstrom's >> kernel modules over to it, and they load fine as well. >> >> Everything seems to work perfect, and it's the Slackware I know and love. >> >> But here's the part where you can help me... I was never any good at using >> Slackbuild scripts before, and now when I look at them they're full of i486s >> and the like. Is there any sort of guide on how to build these? I'll be >> doing so natively (it's fairly zippy, and I have plenty of time) so there's >> no need for a cross-compiler. >> >> Thanks, >> John O. >> _______________________________________________ > > John, > > I build most packages for my ARMedslack installation using the > SlackBuilds from SlackBuilds.org > > Most scripts have some lines like: > > if [ "$ARCH" = "i486" ]; then > SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686" > LIBDIRSUFFIX="" > <...> > > Just put in the following lines: > > <...> > elif [ "$ARCH" = "arm" ]; then > SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=armv4t" > LIBDIRSUFFIX="" > ARCHQUADLET="-gnueabi" > <...> > > and in the "./configure" part, change the following: > > <...> > --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux$ARCHQUADLET > <...> > > Not *all* programs will compile on ARMedslack. > I've had some problems with libraries that use in-line x86 assembler > code that obviously will not work on an arm processor, but this is > very rare. > > Niels > _______________________________________________ > ARMedslack mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack _______________________________________________ ARMedslack mailing list [email protected] http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
