RE: [suse-sparc] necessary to compile new versions?

From: Witvliet, Hans (Hans.Witvliet_at_Alcatel.nl)
Date: Thu Jan 02 2003 - 09:22:30 CET

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From: "Witvliet, Hans" <Hans.Witvliet@Alcatel.nl>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:22:30 +0100 
Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] necessary to compile new versions?

    Hi Kevin,

    Sorry to say, but i think so, yes, you'll have to compile the lot.
    There is no news of a new version for the sparc-distro, and as the last days
    of 2002 slipped away, the same with the hope for a 8.1 sparc release.

    One would hope that all the packages that WERE built succesfully, could be
    available on the ftp-server.
    For instance, for ia-32 and ppc, ther are several project-directories with
    pre-compiles rpm's...
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/poeml/apache2/8.1-i386/
    or
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/samba/i386/8.1/

    Or something like a pre-beta version with everything that did compile ok,
    like:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc64/BETA/

    I would hope, that if a new (version of) package is build for IA-32, suse
    can run the same source packages through a cross-compiler for ia-64, ppc,
    ibm, sparc-32 sparc-64,....
    and put the result in an "compiled but untested" directory.
    If it even failes to compile for a different arch, it might be a good reason
    to check the source files anyway. And if it succeeds, the community can have
    a bite at it, until a new release makes it official.

    (or do i see things too simple...)

    Just my 0.02 euro cents.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Kevin Pfeiffer [mailto:pfeiffer@iu-bremen.de]
    Sent: woensdag 1 januari 2003 20:56
    To: suse-sparc@suse.com
    Subject: [suse-sparc] necessary to compile new versions?

    Hi,

    I spent a better part of the afternoon compiling a newer version of Apache,
    PHP, etc. for my sparc-linux machine. I assume this is necessary but
    thought I'd at least ask after the fact: can one use packages pre-built for
    intel-linux on sparc machines running linux?

    -K

    (Happy New Year!) 

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