First post here, so hi everyone.
Mostly by accident I started compiling PNAEL-5 for ppc, first on a Mac G4 and then, when I run into the multilib requirements, also on a G5. The ppc variant is going well, ppc64 is a huge pile of headaches. So I figured, better ask around first:
- Is anyone else working on what could be CentOS-5.ppc? Am I duplicating effort or could this be useful?
- CentOS-4 has no ppc binaries. Is it due to lack of hardware and/or time or is it a technical or political decision? In other words, if I manage to complete CentOS-5.ppc, would the core team be interested in adding it to the binary distribution?
- Are the Centified PNAEL-5 SRPMS available somewhere, so I can avoid building trademarked packages that I would later have to rebuild again?
- Is CentOS-5 being built with --define "dist .el5" and --define "rhel 5" or with some non-PNAEL designation?
If you have tried this and run into unbuildable ppc64 packages, I'd love to hear whether/how you got around the problem with e.g. binutils and elfutils.
Z