david90210david wrote:
>
>
> I am trying to install a native toolchain to my NSLU2 with SlugOS/BE
> installed. It is very frustrating; many of the instructions in the WIKI
> are outdated, and many of the external links do not work. I finally
> found one that seemed reasonable, at
> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/NativelyCompileUnslungPackages.
> Based on it, I tried "/ipkg install optware-devel/" and it merrily
> churned for several minutes before giving an error, something about
> wget-ssl not being compatible with wget.

It seems that would be a bug in the meta-package, or in the way wget is
packaged.

> (I also tried it with "opkg",
> but no joy there at all. How do you know which to use?)

ipkg installs "optware", opkg installs the native packages. Basically,
the two variations select different feeds. As for which to use --
depends entirely on the packages one is installing.

> I uninstalled wget and then manually installed wget-ssl, which seemed to
> work fine.

Yep, that would be a correct way to address that problem.

> Then I tried rerunning "/ipkg install optware-devel/", and it
> reported success almost immediately.

It's a meta-package. That means that "optware-devel" contains nothing
itself, it just depends on a set of packages that are to be installed.
So in this case, all the dependencies are now satisfied (it failed on
wget-ssl and you fixed that manually, so that's exactly what to expect).

> But there's still no compiler. No
> gcc, no cc, no cl, nothing.

You installed from the optware feeds -- did you look in /opt/bin? All
optware packages install into the /opt directory structure.

-Mike (mwester)