Re: [MiNT] Gentoo/FreeMiNT

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

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 14:34 +0100, Miro Kropacek wrote:
> 
>         There may be some minor overlap with the toolchain stuff, but
>         the rest
>         is not common at all.
> And isn't this everything about toolchain stuff? You say you want to
> make gentoo because of easy maintenance and so on. Those guys also
> have to solve things like own repository, automatic building of source
> packages (how do they do that? using cross compiler? aranym?),
> distribution of updates etc etc. And if, in the end, we use
> m68k-atari-mint-gcc and mintlib instead of m68k-unknown-linux-gcc and
> glibc, *this* is a minor thing. So it's maybe more similar than we
> think. I can imagine pretty well shared source-based repository with
> patches for each platform and separate binary-based repository which
> will be updated in the same way. Only (cross-)compiler / libc will be
> different. Sounds quite cool in my opinion.

You are talking about userspace build scripts and so forth. That's
pretty trivial, so yes, it's minor.

I'm talking about the guts of it all, which are very dis-similar!

Alan.