Re: [MiNT] Gentoo/FreeMiNT

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

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 23:59 +0200, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Monday 03 November 2008, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > I can understand that but wanted to say the above anyway - there are
> > > couple of great guys (Stephen, Geert, Roman, Michael and few others)
> > > organized in Debian-m68k mailing list that use their Atari and ARAnyM
> > > computers to try keeping Debian m68k alive. They are solving similar
> > > problems in the toolchain to those that Alan, Miro or Vincent report
> > > here. It would make sense to share the knowhow and help each other...
> >
> > There may be some minor overlap with the toolchain stuff, but the rest
> > is not common at all.
> >
> > Linux has ELF, shared libraries, glibc and a different kernel.
> >
> > FreeMiNT doesn't have ELF, no shared libraries, mintlib and a different
> > kernel.
> 
> Well, actually Debian is used with different kernels like Solaris, GNU Hurd
> (microkernel) and BSD, not just Linux:
> 	http://www.nexenta.org/os
> 	http://www.debian.org/ports/index#nonlinux
> 
> I also wouldn't discount the stuff that's put into m68k port:
> 	http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k/
> 
> I think there are patches also to other m68k things than just toolchain and
> you may not get them with distros that aren't tested on or don't at least in
> some way support m68k.

Fair point. Understood.

Alan.