On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 05:50:01PM -0500, Mike Mattice wrote: > > Cobalt support has merged into the current Mips kernel CVS a couple > > of days ago - Check the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list for that. > > > > There are currently only a little mips/mipsel packages available > > and we are in the middle of a possibly incompatible glibc transition > > (2.0.7 -> 2.2) so its all less than Alpha. > > I've checked out the current CVS snapshot, but I can't get it > to compile. I've got a chroot debian system set up on my cobalt, > but I'm missing a 'good' gcc or egcs. Where can I find this stuff?
You should be able to build it with egcs 1.0.3a and binutils 2.8.1 with patches - Both can be found on oss.sgi.com. The current binutils should work ok for mips/mipsel - The gcc 2.96 is significantly broken in some aspects (c++ for example). > Also... Is there a debian porting FAQ somewhere that tells everyone > what order to tackle the compiles in? Look at the "MIPS-HOWTO" on http://oss.sgi.com - Its not Cobalt specific. Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5201-669912 "Write only memory - Oops. Time for my medication again ..."
