[MiNT] NMD development report

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

> To answer Mario's reply, yes, I have (previously) recompiled MiNTOS 
> and the libs to use FHS.  GNU utils don't need recompiling and most
> (but not all) of MiNTnet is already usable within an FHS structure.

Here's additional info about what I have done so far:

MiNTOS:  several binaries call each other using hard-coded paths
         that differ from FHS practices.  In most cases, there
         is a variable defining the path, which is easily changed,
         but other binaries rely on imlicit declaration of UTMP
         and WTMP found in the libs themselves (see previous thread
         about my MINTLIB patches to transfer those definitions
         in <paths.h>).

MiNTNET:  almost everything can work as is.  some stuff requires 
          path changes and, again, some other relies on implicit
          MINTLIB declarations.

GNU Utils:  no changes needed, as far as I can tell.

MAN:  requires several path changes, but easily fixed.

GCC:  I haven't looked into it yet, but should pose no problem.


I have already sucessfully recompiled MiNTOS and MiNTNET (assides 
from the previously mentioned compiler problems:  _huge_ binaries 
twice the size of those generated using PL-46 -since PL-47, often
require twice the stack to work, etc.) and hacked the MAN sources
(ready to recompile, before my HD started to misbehave).

There you go.  That's basically the core of our system already.

Ready to ship, once I have a real internet connection from home
(which is the first thing I'm getting, when I move into my new
home in the west-end, next month).
 
PS:  since purchasing this brand-new 4.5 GB, I have booted my old
system once and everything seems just fine, except that the motor
starts to stutter after a couple of hours being ON.   This leaves
me just enough time to backup _one_ hierarchy at a time, per use.
/usr/local/src and /home are already backed-up... ;-)


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