[Freemint-list] Debian/FreeMiNT ?

[Mark Duckworth]

Yeah I definitely got through the most serious stuff for booting and
console usage.  Now that I have these EVB's running mint, I need to get
to building and porting software again.

The ones I really did a lot of porting work on (and thus could benefit
from some peer review) are procps and shadow.  I can't remember why but
I spent an inordinate amount of time on perl as well.  I think that
needed a lot.  I was actually surprised how much success I had,
especially with rpm.  That was a real boon to get that coldfire native
rather than running under emulation.

Hint, whenever you have a 68k app that you need, use the 68kemu.prg.
Just rename the binary to "binary.68k" or something like that and make a
shell script that runs the binary under 68kemu.prg.  Works like a charm
99% of the time, just slow.  That's how I was able to bootstrap rpm and
everything else since I had to run that stuff under emutos.

Thanks,
Mark



On 09/29/2016 04:46 PM, Markus Fröschle wrote:
> Thank you.
> 
> Just installed Mark's ColdFire packages and right now the EVB feels
> already much more like a MiNT system should feel.
> 
> Thank's Mark!
> 
> 
> Am 29.09.2016 um 20:30 schrieb Alan Hourihane:
>>
>> Hi Markus,
>>
>> It's pretty much contained in the Gentoo bootstrap script.
>>
>> But if there's anything specific which pops up I'm happy to help.
>>
>> Alan.
>>
>>
>> On 29/09/16 10:49, mfro at mubf.de wrote:
>>> Hi Alan,
>>>  
>>> Gentoo/MiNT looks like a perfect candidate for our newborn child:
>>> FreeMiNT headless with EmuTOS on native ColdFire for the m5484LITE
>>> eval boards.
>>>  
>>> Could you please explain briefly what would it take to bootstrap
>>> Gentoo/MiNT for ColdFire?
>>>  
>>> Thanks!
>>>  
>>> Markus
>>>  
>>>  
>>> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 29. September 2016 um 09:05 Uhr
>>> *Von:* "Alan Hourihane" <alanh at fairlite.co.uk>
>>> *An:* "Jason Fergus" <leech at thefnords.org>,
>>> freemint-list at mail.atariforge.org
>>> *Betreff:* Re: [Freemint-list] Debian/FreeMiNT ?
>>> You don't have to wait for compiles. You can emerge pre-built binaries
>>> which are available on the webpage.
>>>
>>> Alan.
>>>
>>> On 29/09/16 03:48, Jason Fergus wrote:
>>> > The downside for me with Gentoo has always been that I'm not
>>> terribly patient when it comes to
>>> > waiting for things to be compiled. I have an extremely fast system
>>> now, but I still remember
>>> > compiling kernels on a Pentium 200MMX. But thanks, I'll look into it.
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, 2016-09-28 at 22:10 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
>>> >> There is Gentoo/FreeMiNT.
>>> >> gentoo.atariforge.org
>>> >> Alan.
>>> >>
>>> >> On 28/09/16 19:15, Jason Fergus wrote:
>>> >>> Maybe this has been asked long ago, but has any tried building
>>> this out? Seems m68k is at least
>>> >>> unnoficially ported, and Debian historically has supported non
>>> linux kernels. I would love for
>>> >>> freemint to use the debian / gnu userspace. Not to mention we
>>> could get some newer utilities
>>> >>> than what is in Sparemint.
>>> >>>
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