All about bootstrapping Fedora on RISC-V.
Building packages in stage3
The stage3 environment can be built from source or you can download a snapshot binary image. See above for links to git etc.
Pick a package which:
- has very few dependencies
- is written in C or C++
- is part of Fedora @Core
Grab the source RPM from Koji.
Copy the source RPM into the stage3 disk image. The disk image must not be running when you do this:
virt-copy-in -a stage3-disk.img the_package.src.rpm /var/tmp/
Boot the disk image in qemu:
make boot-stage3-in-qemu
Inside the VM you can now "install" the source RPM, which makes it available under /rpmbuild:
rpm -i /var/tmp/the_package.src.rpm cd /rpmbuild/SPECS
You may need to disable hardened build and debuginfo by adding:
%global debug_package %{nil}
%undefine _hardened_build
to the spec file. Use vim to edit files.
You can now try building the package:
rpmbuild -ba the_package.spec --nodeps
If it builds successfully, brilliant! More usually this will require many cycles of debugging and fixing things. Removing dependencies or parts of the spec file is an option for these stage3 builds.
If you get a build, it will be in /rpmbuild inside the VM. sync and shut down the VM, then do:
virt-copy-out -a stage3-disk.img /rpmbuild ./
and the files will be downloaded to ./SRPMS and ./RPMS in the current directory. Note: Keep the source RPM too, especially if you modified it.
Add notes to the section below. Also come to #fedora-riscv and discuss where to put your built packages.
Notes on packages built so far
The list of packages in this section was constantly out of date, so I deleted it
To see the packages which have been built so far, look in the git repo. If you are planning to port another package, please ping us on #fedora-riscv first, just to make sure that two people don't do overlapping work.
"all-recursive" bug in make
Making all in . Makefile:742: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
This is a bug in either the cross-compiled make or the cross-compiled bash. It is fixed by the natively compiled make and/or bash, so to fix it just run the following command from within the stage3 environment:
rpm -ivh /rpmbuild/RPMS/riscv64/bash-* /rpmbuild/RPMS/riscv64/make-* --nodeps
debugedit missing
Use %global debug_package %{nil} (temporarily for stage3, in stage4 we will attempt to build the debuginfo packages).
bugs about locking, random "Permission denied"
Update to the latest riscv-gnu-toolchain and rebuild the kernel from the repo. All known locking bugs have been fixed.