Re: Question (bug ?) - how to build gawk for Linux on PowerPC ? W hat are pre-requisites to be prior installed ?

[Bob Proulx]

Povolotsky, Alexander wrote:
> There is no Linux vendor for me - I am building from free "vanilla"
> Linux 2.6.8-rc4 distribution for Power PC architecture - diskless
> board with mounted root file system.  My original cross-build
> environment is "cygwin". Now I have bult "native compiler but not
> able to use due to "mess" I have with "rogue" commands (for which I
> seems to do not have "true" working replacements).

Hmm...  Sounds like you have a classic bootstrapping problem.  You
need to build the tools so that you can build the tools so that you
can build the tools.  That can be a worthwhile endeavor.

There are many different ways to attack this problem.  Probably the
linux-from-scratch folks have spent the most time thinking about it
and documenting it in recent history.  Google for that and you will
find several references.  Also look for how Gentoo bootstraps.  I
would start out with an empty partition and then add the needed
programs and build a minimum system.  In that minimum system you can
build the next more capable system and then use that next more capable
system to build the full one.

Bob