Attention people seeking ELF and glibc support for ARM Linux! I've uploaded the first cut at a set of ELF libraries (including glibc 2.1.1) and compilers to my usual FTP space. This set should be regarded as beta-quality at the moment, although I believe they should be markedly more stable than the old a.out libc4 and gcc 2.7.2-based system supplied on the ARM Linux FTP site. The main tree of files is available at either of: * <http://www.inkvine.fluff.org/armlinux/people/chris/rpms/full/> * <ftp://ftp.inkvine.fluff.org/pub/armlinux/people/chris/rpms/full/> although note that as the machine has restrictive firewalling, you may have problems accessing via FTP. In order to use these new RPMs, you must ensure your kernel has ELF support -- any 2.2 kernel will have ELF support, and most late 2.0 kernels do. If you're not sure, suck it and see. I may setup a site full of precompiled kernels for you to download if you have no facility to build your own. Download base/glibc-2.1.1-7.armv3l.rpm and base/rpm-3.0-6.0.armv3l.rpm firstly. You will need to install the glibc RPM, using a command such as `rpm -i glibc-2.1.1-7.armv3l.rpm', possibly with the `--force' switch if you find conflicts with the `ld.so' package, and also possibly with the `--ignorearch' flag, as your rpmrc file may not be in sync with mine. If glibc installs okay, then you can upgrade your ancient version of RPM that Russell supplies to the latest, with a command such as `rpm --upgrade rpm-3.0-6.0.armv3l.rpm', probably with the `--ignorearch' flag again. If that succeeds, then you can download and upgrade all the RPMs in the `compiling' directory, and any others you feel like. There may be dependencies between them that you'll need to resolve. Remember: careful with these packages -- I'd only recommend trying them if you're fairly technical; wait to see the problems if you're not. Obviously I hold no responsibility if your system turns blue and explodes, etc. -- Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ( http://www.fluff.org/chris ) unsubscribe: body of `unsubscribe linux-arm' to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
