Hans Witvliet <hwit@a-domani.nl> writes:
I would hope that the real core basis (gcc, glib, binutils, kernel) were already sorted out for the old SuSE-sparc-port (rel 7.0...7.3) But at that time, not everything was "open" afair.
Those glibc, gcc, binutils and kernel versions are old. For example you do not want gcc 2.95 but gcc 4.1 nowadays. So much has changed that it's basically starting from scratch.
If i'm not mistaken, "icecream" was able to cross-compile (for sparc, HP-PA etc). Is there any docu, HOW2 for that?
Yes, icecream can do this. I don't know about docu for this.
It might speed-up the work that needs to be done...
Definitely.
If there is a minimal installation, that can perform "an install or upgrade" from externally build packages, it would be easily for the community to add the rest.
Richard Günther is playing with this, he started a project on the build service for it, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126