building 11.1-stable on 10.4 ppc system

Justin Hibbits jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu
Tue Apr 17 15:09:41 UTC 2018


Hi,

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:03 AM, Jukka Ukkonen <jau789 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Has anyone successfully built 11.1-stable or any other 11 series kernel
> on a 10.4-stable ppc system?
> I mean is there a reasonable possibility to build a functional 11.1 environment,
> though, the 11.1-release CD and DVD images are both broken?
> Will I need any special steps in addition to the usual...
>
> make kernel-toolchain
> make buildkernel
> make installkernel
>
> Will the old standalone boot branch (loaders, boot blocks, etc.) work or
> will they have to be updated as well at the same time with the kernel?
> What about the tools needed to build them?
>
> --jau

That should work fine.  I don't know why the 11.1 images are broken, I
can check later, maybe not until Thursday or the weekend though, on my
computers.

- Justin


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