[fedora-arm] armv4 build

[Gregg Lebovitz]

Frank,

Thanks. I will try your approach. The cross compiling isn't working :-)

Gregg

Frank wrote:
> in fact, you have an arm compiler.
>
> On Fedora/Arm page, you'll find everything to setup an ARM/Fedora
> under QEMU ; look at pre-built Root FileSystem (or RFS).
> So, you can boot you virtual ARM machine, setup a build environment
> (yum install ... ) and compile your packages.
> Fedora provides you all packages to build a more or less complete ARM-distro.
>
> Cross-compiling isn't always a good idea, because you can't run
> self-tests (some packages do that to confirm everything is ok) at the
> end of building process.
>
> Frank
>
> 2009/3/13, Gregg Lebovitz <gregg at ics.com>:
>   
>> Frank,
>>
>> Thanks. That sounds like a good idea, but I still need an arm compiler.
>>
>> I was hoping to cross compile on my x86 system.
>>
>> Gregg
>>
>> Frank wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> To do the build, you could setup a QEMU to emulate your ARM board. It
>>> will be faster than trying to compile on your 920T (it is something
>>> like 64 Mb and 400 Mhz, i suppose). If i remenber correctly, it is an
>>> armv4t (Thumb instruction set)
>>>
>>> Once you have you QEMU up and runnig, install development tools (gcc,
>>> rpmbuild, ... ) and rebuild your packages with following command :
>>>
>>> rpmbuild --target armv4tl --rebuild name.src.rpm
>>>
>>> i hope this help.
>>>
>>> Frank
>>>
>>> 2009/3/12, Gregg Lebovitz <gregg at ics.com>:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I am new to this list.
>>>>
>>>> I have an embedian boad with a Samsung S3C2440 32-bit ARM920T Core using
>>>> an ARMv4 instruction set. Has anyone build fedora-core-10 for this
>>>> processor? Is this a reasonable thing to do?
>>>>
>>>> I don't see instructions anywhere on how to do the build myself. I have
>>>> downloaded all the source rpms, but down know how to get the build
>>>> started. Any help will be appreciated. I scanned the mail list archive
>>>> and didn't seem to find anything on how to get started.
>>>>
>>>> Gregg
>>>>
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