Re: "Yarrow" on Alpha

[Arkadiy Chapkis - Arc <achapkis shells dls net>]

  I'd be very interested to try Firebird on my miata. As far as gcc3 and glibc
- somehow I was able to build both of them without any hassle:
# gcc -v
Reading specs from
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu/3.3.1/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.3.1/configure --enable-shared --enable-threads
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.1

# ls -l /lib/libc.so*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Qem 24 11:56 /lib/libc.so.6.1 ->
libc-2.3.2.so

 However I didn't use SRPMs - just got the source and build it. Of course each
time I am building and installing any new SRPMs I have to use --nodeps as there
's no glibc rpm installed.


>>Oh - I also have all my "gcc", "g++" and other commands symlinked to
>>"gcc3", "g++3" and the others that came from the RedHat 7.2
>>distribution. I did start out using 2.96, but didn't get very far. :)
>>Now I don't think much more than I've already done is going to build
>>until I can get the gcc and glibc packages built.
>
>Basically that's a problem with a cyclic dependency - gcc 3.3 requires glibc 
>2.3.2, and vice versa. I'm currently building gcc3 (having taken the 
>dependencies out, along with the ada compiler), and can put it up for ftp if 
>anyone's interested (once I've got glibc installed I'll rebuild it so it's 
>pristine).
> I've also recently built and rpm'd Mozilla Firebird 0.7.1 for the alpha - if 
>anyone wants a copy please let me know.
>
>cheers
>john
>
>


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