On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:52 AM, George Hunt <georgejh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Peter, > > I was confused when I installed latest 12.1.0 on an XO and issued "uname > -a", to see the response come back armv7l, rather than armv7hl. I was > thinking that yum would be confused by the difference.
The kernel isn't hardfp/softfp because the kernel doesn't use maths co-processors. rpm/yum has been hacked to deal with it. It's all a little ugly but it works. > I'm glad that the trimslice generated rpms I have will be usable. I'll need > to learn how to override the default arch, so that yum will do what I want > it to do. But I have google for that! Why do you need to override the arch? What exactly are you trying to do? > Thanks for your help, > > George > > > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:42 AM, George Hunt <georgejh...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi Peter, >> > >> > You probably know the answer to this question off the top of your head. >> > >> > I've played with fedora's Trimslice armv7hl, using it to recompile XS >> > rpms. >> > Now in conversation with OLPC-Australia, I've agreed to try to apply my >> > stuff to the XO-1.75 pre-release 12.1.0, which I believe is based upon >> > FC17. >> >> It is indeed, it's using the F-17 arm hardfp release. >> >> > Question: Is my easiest path to basically start over, either building up >> > a >> > cross compiling tool chain, or maybe try to compile the XS rpms on an >> > armv7l >> > machine natively, as I did with the TS, (the XO itself seems the obvious >> > choice). >> >> If you have a trimslice why don't you use that and compile natively? >> In Fedora everything is compiled natively with no cross-compilation. >> >> > I had trouble earlier getting a tool chain together to run on FC17, on >> > top >> > if parallels, on my MAC. >> >> To be honest I've never cross compiled any ARM packages. >> >> > Do you have any advice? >> >> Compile natively :-) >> >> If you have a Trimslice, Pandaboard or even an XO 1.75 you can compile >> on all of those using the standard distros. On any of the platforms >> you can "yum install" or "yum groupinstall " anything you may need and >> build directly. You might want to add an ext4 formatted usb HDD to use >> as the storage for building on those platforms as they tend to be a >> bit quicker than SD card storage. >> >> Peter > > _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
