On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:30:18AM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 05/21/2010 07:57 AM, Greg Snyder wrote: > > 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. > > Tim and Fabian have been doing some work on the ppc build at the moment, > I've done some in the past. There is an irc channel #centos-ppc that we > use to keep in sync. And *most* of the hardwork required to bootstrap > the builds has already been done ( creating the bootstrap roots etc ) That's good news. How can I see / get started with what you guys have so far? > One thing you might want to keep in mind is that the RHEL ppc project > *only* targets IBM power4+ kit. Which does not include anything that > apple ever made, and it certainly does not include any non 64bit powerpc > capable stack. Thanks for the heads up. > So welcome to the party, bring your kernel and glibc porting skills > along. And be ready to backport upstream patches for various things as > they only patch ppc64 relevant code ( which, admittedly isnt that much > to start with - but it does include the kernel and a dep tree down from > there ). Thanks, sure, I'm ready for some hard work, and have done this type of work on other platforms before. > The situation has gotten a bit more intense with the direction they are > taking in RHEL6. > > Tim, Fabian - perhaps an irc syncup is called for ? I'd love to be involved, or even just hear more detail about where things are at. -- Greg > > - KB > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel