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Re: a patch, and some questions



On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:58:34PM +0000, Martin Schaffner wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> To cross-compile yaboot, I had to apply the following patch:
> 
> http://in3www.epfl.ch/~schaffne/yaboot-cross-compile.patch
> 
> Unfortunately, it seems that Ethan Benson rejected such a patch a while  
> ago, saying that 1.x is "frozen and doomed". However, 2.x is not out  
> yet...
> 
> 
> I then tried to look if 2.x would cross-compile without patch.  
> Unfortunately, I didn't find out how to compile it:
> 
> $ rsync -avz rsync.penguinppc.org::yaboot-unstable yaboot-1.99.x
> $ cd yaboot-1.99.x/
> $ ls
> 0arch-timestamps0  COPYING  ChangeLog  TODO  configs  lib  {arch}
> $ find . -name yaboot.c
> $ find . -iname Makefile
> ./lib/libc/Makefile
> ./lib/libc/{arch}/++pristine-trees/unlocked/prom-libc/prom-libc--devel/ 
> prom-libc--devel--1.0/erbenson@alaska.net--public/prom-libc--devel- 
> -1.0--patch-50/Makefile
> 
> It seems that the "second" directory, where yaboot.c is in 1.x, is not  
> in the rsync tree. There are no build instructions either. What am I  
> missing?

your missing that yaboot 2 isn't written yet, and you need to help do
that first.

meanwhile work on prom-libc, which is what is under the lib/libc
directory.

thanks.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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