[clue-tech] openhackware

[Dennis J Perkins]

On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 20:27 -0700, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> David L. Willson wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lori M. Spencer" <LSpencer at TheGeek.NU>
> [...]
> > lori at lori-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get -b source openhackware
> 
> Why do you want to install from source?  Debian has a binary package you 
> can use.  (And it will probably work on any system that can extract the 
> .bin.)
> 
> > dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
> >  debian/rules clean
> > debian/rules:14: *** "this package needs to be built with a powerpc-linux-gnu toolchain".  Stop.
> 
> So build it on ppc, which seems to be what is intended.  Or you have to 
> figure out how to cross-compile ppc code on i386.  I guess there should 
> be a HOWTO out there but it may be more work than you want.  Unless 
> learning cross-compiling makes you more marketable.
> 
> Might be a good CLUE talk though...
> Dave
> 
> 

If you want to try cross compiling, look at CLFS.  It's definitely more
complicated, but some newer features in GCC make it easier now.