I'm currently using scripts as provided by
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General/RebuildReleaseProcess
in my first attempt to create a CentOS 5.5 IA64 port. Learning much as I go along.
----- "Greg Snyder" gregs@tallmaple.com wrote:
| Hi all, | | I'm trying to get a CentOS 5 port started for PowerPC. I saw there | was | some email back in February about this, but did not know what | progress | had been made. Does anyone have any news? I'm most interested in | 32-bit, with the hope of eventually running it on some Apple (G4 and | G5) | desktops, as well as on some embedded PowerPC boards (mostly amcc | 460ex | based). So I'd be hoping to build with some pretty generic target | options so the RPMs would be useful in the most places. | | Are there tools, scripts or techniques used to do the x86 RPMs build | that could be leveraged? I looked around on the CentOS website and | wiki, but could not find docs or sources for this. Any pointers on | this, or just generally how the x86 build/build server is | bootstrapped, | and the x86 RPMs are produced, would be greatly appreciated. | | Given my previous somewhat painful experience with autoconf-related | cross-build issues, my first thought was to build the bulk of the | RPMs | natively on PowerPC, rather than x86 to PowerPC cross-build. I have | a | few PowerPC boxes (currently running Fedora 12), including a quad | core | 2.5GHz G5, that I'd be happy to share with others interested in | getting | a CentOS PowerPC port done. | | I'd be grateful for any tips, help or direction. | | Thanks, | Greg | _______________________________________________ | CentOS-devel mailing list | CentOS-devel@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel