Michel,
I don't mean to discourage you in any way from attempting
this, but you should be aware that the process is likely
to be rather non-trivial if it succeeds. There is a
reason why RedSleeve has no hard-float version available.
1) You would have to do a full manual boot-strap from
source. EL6 is baded on Fedora 12 (well, more like
F11-F13-ish). Hard-float variant of Fedora was not
available until F15. Since the package versions,
including in core libraries, are quite different, you
will not be able to take advantage of building stage1
packages on a similar existing distribution.
2) There is a reason why Fedora did not have a hf distro
available until F15 - the toolchain (gcc & co.) did not
have good enough support before then. A lot of ARM
development went into the toolchain in the 18 months
between F12 and F15.
2.1) In the unlikely case that you manage to get enough
to build for a basic skeleton system, you may well have
to have to write and apply a number of extra patches to
various packages to make them build.
2.2) If you change the toolchain versions substantially
in order to make things build it is no longer EL6.
By all means, have a go - I very much hope you
succeed. :)
Note that in terms of compiling performance, due to
the emulation overheads, you may find that building
natively on the Pi is actually faster than building
in QEMU on x86. However - for a stage new, new arch
build you might as well just cross-compile the stage1,
and compile natively from there on. A full package
rebuild takes about a month on a machine like a Pi.
Good luck. :)
Gordan
On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:48:12 +0400, Alexander Voropay
<[email protected]> wrote:
You could use QEMU ARM to build RPMs on the "native" architecture.
http://wiki.redsleeve.org/index.php/QEMU [1]
The emulation slows-down speed about 1:8 but still enough
to build/compile.
2013/9/20 Michel Daggelinckx
I'm rebuilding a box from spare parts.
Intel pentium 4 HT 3Ghz
2GB ram
150 GB HD
4TB usb HD
i would like to use this as a build system to build my own redsleeve
linux for armhf (raspberry).
what software do i need to do this?
I will install a minimal centos 6.
I'm handicaped and going insane cos i have nothing to do, this
project would keep me occupied and would be a great learning
challenge.
It could also give me the chance to get a programmers training with
a
local software company.
I realy hope you can help me to get going.
Yours,
Michel
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