Re: Status of PL48 Was: gcc-as 2.5.1

[Katherine L Ellis <kellis@primenet.com>]

Hi, While porting some tools, this came up, syslog.h is not enough and
is missing quite a lot of basic function.
example, openlog() can't find it. and a LOT of them are missing like
that. Is it my syslog.h that's outdated?
Also, err.h is none exitant at all, so for some port that needed it I
had to transform all the alertx() type into printf(),  It is not very
cool, but well it works, anyone ok to port a err.h for mint? that
would make some bsdi port much easier and faster.

Also, my termcap.h seems to have a problem with all the tput()
function. It compiles but with tons of warnings.

At last, has anyone tried to recompile the simple init or login from
mintos?   (with -Wall), I could but TOO many warning like function not
even found, (implicit blah). I truely believe that login and init are
not clean, and therefore shows problem with some machine or setup.
A clean port of these, and might as well port the latest login.
But again, I couldn't because of syslog being too weak to be flexible.

Wouldn't it be time to have a newer kgmd type? 
As for anthony, GEM based remark, I don't quite agree, teh whole
advantage of such system is speed, so why slowing it down? Would be
better in this case to port mintnet/mintos to magic. (which I wouldn't
be interested anyway), but that's just me.
KGMD installation all gem based yes, but not as regular use.
Some tool could have alternative into GEM or TOS, such as minit, fsck,
etc. why not.

Well enough mumbling.

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