> I'd like to thank everyone for trying to help me to get this working.
I'd like to second that - everyone on the list has been a great help to
me as well when I've asked about various things, especially Russell and
Phil.
> I did manage to get binutils to recompile by doing a
> "cp -r /usr/arm-unknownlinuxaout/* /usr/", and even egcs compiled... but
> glibc wouldn't.
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I managed to get glibc working in the end and made a few elf binaries -
what I didn't realize was that to make X elf binaries (the main reason I
wanted to convert to elf) you need to recompile the X libraries. Care to
guess at the size of the XFree86 source?
I've now switched to using x86 Linux on a Pentium for the time being as
my main computer now so I'm not too worried about persuing the above.
> This is just too hard for me; I think I'm going to delete my Arm Linux
> partition and maybe try to get Linux running on the PC card if it's ever
> supported.
Linux doesn't exactly whizz along on my "real" PC (a P120) so I'd think
it would be appallingly slow on a PC card, even with one of the quick
Pentiums.
I think that when the Debian group finally get their ARM distribution
out with full elf support precompiled, then ArmLinux would begin to look
interesting from a user's point of view. Until then, most of the big
apps are just out of our reach.
> But I would just like to say one final thank-you to everyone who tried
> to help me, and to the people who develop ARM Linux for doing such a
> cracking job.
Absolutely
Chris
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