[ewg] Question: RH4.5 inclusion in ofed-1.2

[Doug Ledford]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 08:02 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Quoting Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> > Subject: Re: [ewg] Question: RH4.5 inclusion in ofed-1.2
> > 
> > On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 19:25 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > > what we really need is tarballs with source + .config files
> > > > > for all arches.
> > > > 
> > > > We don't make those.  We make the src.rpm, which can be installed and
> > > > then you can run rpmbuild --bp kernel-2.6.spec to make the source tree
> > > > on any arch you are interested in.  The rpmbuild --bp process spits out
> > > > the source tree (in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9 IIRC, unless you
> > > > specify somewhere else either on the command line to rpmbuild or in your
> > > > ~/.rpmmacros file) plus the configs for the arch you ran it on.
> > > 
> > > So I hoped you can do all this for us and upload the tarballs
> > > we can stick in our cross-build environment. Would that be possible?
> > 
> > I could only do x86/x86_64, no ppc/ppc64/ia64.  However, why not just
> > install the kernel-devel rpms and build against that?  That's what they
> > are there for.
> 
> I haven't tried doing this on Ubuntu.
> Can one do this as a regular user?

Um, it's ubuntu...how should I know...it's your box, try it out.

> Can one install the ppc RPMs on an i386 box?

No clue.  But I'm certain you couldn't install i386 and x86_64 and ppc
at the same time on the same box.

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