Instructions for fixing the rpm installation dirs with didbs 0.1.6

fixingrpm.txt

How to get "rpm" fixed and installed in the right directory
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I assume you've got the appropriate pre-requisites installed for didbs.

Extract the didbs 0.1.6 gcc release under /usr/didbs

 cd /usr/didbs
 gunzip usr-didbs-0.1.6-n32m3gcc.tar.gz |tar xf

Fix up a "current" symbolic link to this extract (must be to the things just extracted!):
 ln -s 0_1_6_n32_mips3_gcc current

Now we'll clone the didbs git repository with the fix
 git clone https://github.com/danielhams/didbs.git didbs.git
 cd didbs.git

Next in this same directory, create the didbs config file "bootstrap.conf" with these contents:

--packagedir /usr/didbs/0_1_package
--compiler gcc
--isa mips3
--installdir /usr/didbs/0_1_6_n32_mips3_gcc
--builddir /usr/didbs/0_1_6_n32_mips3_gcc_build
--elfwidth n32
--stoponuntested

Now in this dir, try a "dry run" of didbs to be sure it will only try to rebuild libdicl, libpopt and rpm:

 ./bootstrap.pl --dryrun

Verify it's only the mentioned packages - then we can "unleash the build":

 ./bootstrap.pl
 
If all successful, you should now see "rpm" and related tools under /usr/didbs/0_1_6_n32_mips3_gcc/bin

 ls -alrt /usr/didbs/0_1_6_n32_mips3_gcc/bin
 

bootstrapping in progress. thanks for this work