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Hi all,
There's a pretty complete set of FC3 binary packages for big-endian
ARM platforms (such as the Linksys NSLU2) now available at:
http://skrybele.wantstofly.org/fc3/
Some packages (compat-gcc, evolution, gnomemeeting, and a few others)
are still missing, they will be added when they finish rebuilding.
The patches/ directory contains the patches that were needed to get
everything to build and work on ARM. Surprisingly little patches
were needed:
- A lot of FC3 packages hardcode usage of -fpie/-pie, which is not
supported (yet) on ARM. Attempting to create a position-independent
executable will fail at the linking stage. The 00pie/ directory
contains all patches that were used to conditionally dike -fpie/-pie
out of the entire distro. Arguably, this could have been "solved" in
a nicer way by patching binutils/gcc to ignore the relevant arguments,
which is of course still not a proper fix.
- glibc-kernheaders needed a set of ARM headers.
- binutils/gcc/glibc needed some patches which are mostly related to
"all ARMs in the world are little-endian"-assumptions.
- rpm and redhat-rpm-config needed to be taught about ARM, and that
there can be ARM fedora systems.
- FC3 doxygen doesn't build with g++ 3.4 (needs 3.3.) I suspect the
doxygen package wasn't rebuilt after gcc was replaced by 3.4.
- xorg-x11, gmp and openssl also assumed that all ARMs in the world
are little endian.
- The xorg-x11 spec file and host.def needed some tweaking for ARM.
Additionally, the file 'slicer.cc' in xorg-x11 triggered a gcc ICE
(the only file in the distro that does, by the way.) Work around
this by compiling xorg-x11 with -O2 instead of -O3, which makes the
ICE disappear.
- Patch rhpl and util-linux to use __kernel_old_dev_t instead of
__kernel_dev_t.
- howl and parted needed some extra __attribute__((__packed__)) here
and there.
- elfutils had -Werror in its compile flags, but contains usage of
__attribute__ that triggers a warning on ARM.
Most of the upstream bugs have been reported upstream.
I'll start building FC4 once I get gcc 4 to work on ARM...
cheers,
Lennert
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