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From: Francois Bissey <francois.bissey@×××××××××××××.nz>
To: "gentoo-alt@l.g.o" <gentoo-alt@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] RAP on ppc64 (SLES11.1)
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 03:03:38
Message-Id: 5CE5A43B-ADCD-4065-B54B-1E9E42A08E94@canterbury.ac.nz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] RAP on ppc64 (SLES11.1) by Benda Xu
1 Hi!
2
3 > On 29/01/2017, at 15:49, Benda Xu <heroxbd@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > Hi François,
6 >
7 > François Bissey <francois.bissey@×××××××××××××.nz> writes:
8 >
9 >> I now have a working RAP environment on ppc64.
10 >> So here is a bit of recipe to achieve this:
11 >> * There is no current ppc64 profile, so one has to be
12 >> created during stage 1.
13 >> I copied the ppc64 from prefix/linux to prefix/linux-standalone.
14 >> Replace make.default inside prefix/linux-standalone/ppc64
15 >> by the one in prefix/linux-standalone/amd64.
16 >> Copy the "legacy" folder from prefix/linux-standalone/amd64
17 >> to prefix/linux-standalone/ppc64.
18 >
19 > Thanks!
20 >
21 >> * Make sure help2man is installed on the host system (for bison).
22 >
23 > I don't remember if the bare minimal OpenSUSE 42.1 needed this.
24 >
25 >> * I would like the following patch to be considered
26 >> for the bootstrap script
27 >> --- bootstrap-rap.sh.orig 2017-01-24 12:20:27.304355158 +1300
28 >>
29 >>
30 >> +++ bootstrap-rap.sh 2017-01-24 12:34:30.325185905 +1300
31 >>
32 >>
33 >> @@ -1382,8 +1382,8 @@
34 >>
35 >>
36 >> sys-libs/ncurses
37 >>
38 >>
39 >> sys-libs/readline
40 >>
41 >>
42 >> app-shells/bash
43 >>
44 >>
45 >> - sys-apps/sed
46 >> app-arch/xz-utils
47 >> + sys-apps/sed
48 >
49 >> The latest version of sed is compressed with xz which
50 >> means the bootstrap will fail if xz-utils is not installed
51 >> in /bin or /usr/bin.
52 >> Newer distro probably have it but not older ones.
53 >> So we should move xz-utils before sed.
54 >
55 > Which tarball (URL) did it use?
56 >
57
58 sed-4.3.tar.xz. The version in ~arch is pulled and that is that one
59 https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-apps/sed/sed-4.3-r1.ebuild
60
61 > I am wondering if it is feasible to grant me access to a ppc64 box with
62 > SLES 11.1 to test out these patch before committing to the
63 > repositories.
64 >
65
66 Unfortunately no. I have the power but not the authority -
67 as a matter of fact it could get me into troubles - unless
68 you have a relation with the university of Canterbury in
69 New Zealand.
70
71 François

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Re: [gentoo-alt] RAP on ppc64 (SLES11.1) Benda Xu <heroxbd@g.o>