[fedora-arm] Cross compiling setup

[Andrew Haley]

Jeff Picciotti wrote:
> Hello, having a little trouble remembering what I did in the past and
> thought someone out there might have a suggestion.
> 
> A little background...  My small company has developed an arm board in
> house and we have already setup up a couple of rootfs, one for runtime,
> one for debugging and we also setup a cross compiling machine which is a
> fedora 8 box.
> We decided we were going to move our cross compiling machine to another
> server and start fresh and I am having trouble linking the libraries I
> need (the libraries do not exist in my new toolchain, where they do
> exist on the old machine).  I was obviously successful before but I
> can't seem to find my notes.
> I am having trouble remembering if I did anything special to manually
> install the following libraries in /usr/armv5tel-red.../sys-root/lib 
> and /usr/armv5tel-red.../sys-root/usr/lib
> libglibc-2.0
> libgssapi_krb5
> libk5crypto
> libssl
> libkeyutils
> some others to. I have this feeling I used some rpm tool to do this but
> maybe not. Should these libraries be there by default or can I install
> the rpms for them from the arm repository or how s the correct way to do
> this? Did I copy these files from a rootfs?
> I have tried to install to the new toolchain using rpm but I get "cannot
> relocated this rpm".

I always use rpm2cpio | cpio -i from the top of the sysroot.

Andrew.