Chris Rutter wrote:
> Hardware depending, I should have a RiscPC up on the Internet in some
> capacity sometime in the next week or two, and then a grand recompile
> of RedsHat's `Rawhide' source RPM set can begin, giving all ARM Linux
> users from armv3l upwards a bang-up-to-date set of packages, compiled
> using the latest ELF toolset and glibc 2.1.
I think that would make you eligible for nomination for the Linux hero
of the month award ;-)
> In the meantime, if there are any requests for specific RPMs (e.g.
> fileutils, or whatever), mail me and I'll see what I can do about getting
> them cross-compiled on inkvine.
ld.so, glibc, glibc-devel ? ;-)
BTW, I kind of wonder if anybody has ever told the makers of all these
wonderful arm4-specific distributions that their work could be useful for
a lot more people if they compiled for arm3, and that the performance
difference is pure science fiction in almost all cases anyway.
I know, duplicate work keeps our economy alive, but still ...
- Werner
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