On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:01:39AM -0700, Jim Fischer wrote:
> Has anyone managed to build Perl v5.x on/for the EBSA-285
> [StrongARM/SA-110]? I've tried to natively build a variety of Perl 5.5x and
> 5.6x packages on the EBSA, but they all use the '/bin/sort' command during
> the build which causes a memory exhaustion error. [The EBSA has only 16 MB
> of SDRAM installed...] I've also tried to cross compile those packages, but
> the configure scripts do not support cross compilation. The problem is,
> without Perl I cannot (natively) compile Linux kernels, gcc, glibc, and a
> variety of other tools and utilities (e.g., package managers).
>
> FWIW, I'm currently looking into buying more memory for the board, but until
> I can find a vendor that sells the required SDRAM chips, I'm more-or-less
> stuck. Any suggestions???
current development perl builds OK (but slowly) with a suitable gcc
on a StrongARM RiscPC.
You may be able to get somewhere by getting config.sh for an ARM system
(sorry, can't supply one for the next 8 hours until I get home)
You should be able to extract one from Config.sh from a binary distribution
for arm. (start at the line "my $config_sh = <<'!END!';")
edit as need be and run ./Configure -S
This bypasses all the questions and meta-conf system probing, which
as best I can tell is the only place that /bin/sort is used in the build
process
If all else fails I could build you a perl on a RiscPC with 2.2.17-rmk1
kernel and glibc 2.1.3 (as supplied by Debian) and send you a tar of
the install tree.
Nicholas Clark
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