Re: [MiNT] coreutils & findutils

[Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi>]

Hi,

On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Mark Duckworth wrote:
> 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.

Btw. Busybox includes nowadays (pretty crappy [1]) "top".  Has anybody
though about building a new Busybox for MiNT:
	http://busybox.net/
?

It's starting to be fairly compatible with GNU tools, although I still
wouldn't use it for doing shell stuff needed by autotools as several tools
(such as find) are lacking quite a lot of options compared to GNU utils:
	http://busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html


Another "top" alternative would be "htop" (much nicer than top from
psutils), but I guess it's even more Linux specific:
	http://htop.sourceforge.net/


	- Eero

[1] Busybox "ps" is pretty crappy too.  It just ignores options
     instead of giving errors for things it doesn't recognize...