Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Dec 2021 21:30:12 +0100 | Subject | Re: linux-next: manual merge of the audit tree with the powerpc tree | From | Cédric Le Goater <> |
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On 12/14/21 20:32, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > > Le 14/12/2021 à 19:23, Paul Moore a écrit : >> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 12:59 PM Christophe Leroy >> <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> wrote: >>> Hello Paul, >>> >>> I've been trying to setup your test suite on my powerpc board but it's >>> based on Perl and on a lot of optional Perl packages. I was able to add >>> them one by one until some of them require some .so libraries >>> (Pathtools-Cwd), and it seems nothing is made to allow cross building >>> those libraries. >>> >>> Do you have another test suite based on C and not perl ? >>> >>> If not, what can I do, do you know how I can cross compile those Perl >>> packages for PPC32 ? >> >> Is there no Linux distribution that supports PPC32? I would think >> that would be the easiest path forward, but you're the PPC32 expert - >> not me - so I'll assume you already tried that or it didn't work for >> other reasons. > > There hasn't been Linux distribution supporting PPC32 for a few years > now. And regardless, the boards I'm running Linux on are home made > embedded boards, with limited amount of memory and flashdisk space and > no video chip, so they are hardly supported by any distributions, even > older ones.
We still have debian. you will find images under :
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-04-17/
and from there, you can update to unstable, which runs fine under a mac99 QEMU machine.
Cheers,
C.
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