Re: [MiNT] coreutils & findutils

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 22:14 -0500, Mark Duckworth wrote:
> Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > So,
> >
> > I've moved onto these two newer packages. I know Vincent had some
> > preliminary patches on his website fore coreutils, and I've got updated
> > ones now.
> >
> > But these two (and probably newer GNU tools) benefit from some new libc
> > functionality, which in our case needs more kernel support in FreeMiNT.
> >
> > So I've implemented, fdopendir/fchdir/dirfd functions for both libc &
> > freemint and I'm testing these two packages with them at the moment. All
> > looks good.
> >
> > If testing goes well I'll send them to the list at the end of the week
> > including the needed patches for coreutils & findutils.
> >
> > Alan.
> >
> >
> >
> >   
> Alan,
> 
> I already ported a recent coreutils if you want the rpm/scripts.  I 
> ported a LOT of those packages.  But unfortunately things like procps 
> will need lots of changes to be compatible.  To be honest I'd love a 
> "top" implementation that is just as functional as on linux.

I don't know how recent, but I'm using 6.9.

Alan.