Re: [rock-user] Small distribution for PPC platform..

On Monday 11 October 2004 20:03, Mailing by GSoftware wrote:
> thanks stefan, now i have disabled the 'paranoia' flags, but inside the
> folder confing-name (i have leave the same name of default..) the file
> packages and packages.txt are empty!!

Well they shouldn't be, as you might have already guessed ;-) Seems like the 
Config script has some problems running on MacOS. Did you see any error 
messages during execution of ./scripts/Config?

> Probably i have missing something during the process but i don't no..
>
>   here are the cmd launched on sequences;
>
> a - ./scripts/Config -cfg config-name (without a specify name)
> b - ./scripts/Download -cfg config-name -required
> and
> c - ./scripts/Build-Target -cfg config-name (then launched this cmd do
> not appears nothing on the window pane of the terminal. During the
> phase of the configuration i have specify PPC as target and then also
> to print on terminal during the build phase ).

The sequence of commands is correct, but as Benjamin already pointed out Rock 
is only known to work on Linux systems. I wouldn't be surprised if the 
programs the Rock scripts use had subtle differences on MacOS that cause the 
scripts to fail (silently). 
The most elegant solution I think would be to use a Rock Live-CD to boot and 
run the Rock scripts from. Sadly there is no such ISO image available for 
download as far as I know, but maybe other Rock developers/users  will 
create/upload such an image if you ask them kindly enough ;-) I don't have a 
PPC so I would have to make some handstands to build for PPC - install a PPC 
emulator, install and setup a PPC Linux on it and build using this emulated 
system. 
There are however Rock Desktop images for PPC available at 
 http://www.rocklinux.org/powerpc.html
Disadvantages are that they are more than 9 months old, rather large (3 
CD-sets each) and they require to be installed on your hard disk (not 
completely though - you can install just the packages you need).
There may be smaller PPC Linux distros available that allow to build a Rock 
distribution with no/minor adaptations, but according to the Wikipedia 
(Keyword Live-CD) "gcc and make [have not] not yet [been] seen in any PPC 
live CD".

Yours,
Stefan Fiedler

>
> Please if you can last help form me..
>
> Marco
>
> On Oct 11, 2004, at 6:00 PM, Stefan Fiedler wrote:
> > On Monday 11 October 2004 15:55, Mailing by GSoftware wrote:
> >> On Oct 11, 2004, at 1:48 PM, Benjamin Schieder wrote:
> >>>> Hello list,
> >>>
> >>> Hi.
> >>>
> >>>> Paranoia Check: No active swap partition found!
> >>>> That can cause the build scripts to hang your system!. Activate
> >>>> a swap partition using the 'swapon' command and try again.
> >>>
> >>> You really should create a swap partition or file.
> >>> Compiling something - especially whole distribution - will require an
> >>> awful
> >>> lot of memory. So unless you have like 2GB RAM do this:
> >>>
> >>> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1M count=512
> >>> # mkswap /swap
> >>> # swapon /swap
> >>
> >>   swapon and mkswap aren't recognizable in Apple OS X (10.3.5)
> >> filesystem terminal. Suggestions??
> >
> > If I get it right from reading some pages about MacOS X, it
> > automatically
> > creates new swap files (very similar to swap partitions, but a bit
> > slower)
> > when needed. So you probably can ignore the warning and disable the
> > Paranoia
> > Check after the other issues (mktemp) are solved. But remember if your
> > computer runs out of memory (= no more swap available) it will HANG
> > (very
> > unpleasant if you have any important applications running).
> >
> > Have fun,
> > Stefan Fiedler
> >
> >>>> Paranoia Check: Program 'mktemp' not found or too old!
> >>>> You need an 'mktemp' installed which does know about the -p
> >>>> option. Install the latest mktemp version.
> >>>
> >>> This is really necessary! You need a recent mktemp because that is
> >>> used
> >>> a lot in the ROCK scripts.
> >>
> >>   Ok download it and then recompile..
> >>
> >>> do the following:
> >>>
> >>> # tar xf --use-compress-program=bzip download/mirror/m/mktemp*
> >>> # cd mktemp*
> >>> # ./configure --prefix=/usr
> >>> # make
> >>> # make install
> >>>
> >>> That should get you going.
> >>> If you _really_ want to disable the Paranoia Checks (NOT RECOMMENDED)
> >>> activate
> >>> the expert options in ./scripts/Config and then you will find the
> >>> switch for
> >>> Paranoia Checks as one of the last options in the menu.
> >>>
> >>>> b - sorry i am absolute new to build the rocklinux engine; my goals
> >>>> is
> >>>> to make a simple distro PPC target, 50-60MB to stay inside a small
> >>>> PenDrive as emergency tools (diagnostics, security bla bla). If this
> >>>> isn't possible could be good the normal procedure with regular CD.
> >>>
> >>> This should be possible. I've managed to get a system with X and
> >>> mplayer into
> >>> 25 MB :-)
> >>
> >>   Beatufil!!. I hope to do the same goals. But please do you have, if
> >> possible, more specify guideline to follow for a solution/target ppc??
> >> Link as to make teh swap under mac, etc etc
> >>
> >>> HTH,
> >>>  blindy
> >>
> >>   kindly regard
> >>
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