Jeff,
> Very interesting, thanks for doing all those builds!
You're welcome ;-)
> One thing you should watch for -- many packages will compile fine, but
> completely bomb because there are assumptions in the source code about
> integers being the same size as pointers.
Yup... well.... there's only one way to find out, right?? Compiling is
the
first step, and then try to run them... my concern right now is trying
to
get the "base" OS to compile, and eventually run. The base shouldn't be
so much different from RedHat 6.0's packages (a bit newer maybe)... so
we can also use them to see how they pulled it off...
> If it is easy, could you consider adding another category to the above:
> packages which compile but emit warnings similar to:
> "pointer cast to integer of different size"
There are tonnes of those... ;-)
> I wonder if RedHat has patches for their Alpha packages...
Use the source... I beleive that most intel, alpha and sparc
packages compile from the same src.rpm. Only some src.rpm's
are made specifically for the platform... Then it's down to
looking through the patches. I know it isn't going to be easy.
I put the output of the build's on my ftp server. Feel free to
have a look at:
ftp://cgmd77035.chello.nl/pub/build_output/
Regards,
Stefan
