In message <86256872.000F3FAD.00 at notesmta.natinst.com> you write: > > I am using an 860 based board, and am in need of several of the 'standard' > Linux > utilities. (shells, module support, ls, etc.) In the past, I've always gone > to
When your kernel has the FPU emulation code included you should be able to run the tools from a standard LinuxPPC distribution; this is probably not optimal but the easiest way to get startet and to provide the full working environment for NFS based systems. This way you only need to recompile/optimize those tools you really put into your embedded system. > the net and started looking around for an RPM containing the source code that > I > need and then take that and compile it for my platform. However, lately, I've > spent a lot of time not finding what I am looking for. Is there a place > someone > can suggest that I can go to and get many of the standard utilities in source? Any of the GNU archives, of course. See ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu for a starting point and a list of mirror sites. > Sometimes, these utilities are in RPMs (if not all the time.) Is there a > place RPM's are already a higl-level issue; usually you will find the sources in (compressed) tarballs. > that I can go to get a list of what utilities are in what RPMs? (That is, how RTFM for RPM! Use "rpm -qa" to get a listing of all installed RPM's, and "rpm -ql ql <rpm_name>" to get a list of files that come with RPM <rpm_name>. > would I know that the source to ls is in x.y-4.rpm?) Distributions build > them, > so they have to exist somewhere! Use rpm -qf `which ls` to find out that "ls" belongs to the fileutils RPM (and thus compiles from the sources in the fileutils tarball from your GNU mirror site). Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean. - Albert Einstein ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
