Developers' Blogs: DNAku

I finally managed to compile glibc-2.6.3 on PowerPC with gcc-4.0.2.
First there seemed to be a problem with the kernel-headers. Because of a small glitch in the kernel-headers FrugalBuild I was using the headers for i386.

After that it was just a matter of googling for a patch to fix each compile error I ran into. Some patches weren't easy to find, but once I noticed that a one of those errors had already been fixed in the cvs, I just got a cvs snapshot and made the final patch that way. In the end I had 4 patches for ppc and it compiles perfectly now.

And because glibc compiled with gcc 4.0.2 I was able to successfully build pacman-2.9.99.7. I also managed to compile Yaboot thanks to some CLFS patch. Next on the list is powerpc-utils.