Re: MiNT cross-compiler

Hi,

I've been wondering, what happened to all of this? I've seen another
Thorsten email a while later proposing to merge those changes but looking
at https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gcc-4.6 it would seem that all of this
effort is gone? Or is this mint cross compiler accessible in debian
somehow? (except adding Vincent's PPA of course).

Cheers,
Miro

On Wed, 2 May 2012 at 19:26, Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Vincent,
>
> I thought you’d appreciate a progress mail.
>
> For now, I’ve built binutils and gcc-4.6 with your patches (applied
> liberally rather than literally as I mailed you) and got the dpkg
> maintainer to add mint-m68k as a Debian architecture (patch also
> applied locally). I’ve built gcc-4.6 as a DEB_STAGE=stage1 compiler,
> that is, without a C library or header files, but self-contained.
>
> Vincent Rivière dixit:
>
> > What components do you use in your Debian distribution, in order to
> rebuild the
> > atari-bootstrap package? The full MiNT toolchain (binutils + GCC +
> MiNTLib +
>
> For now I’m doing without mintlib; my next step is to see whether
> that is actually enough to build atari-bootstrap or whether I have
> to package mintlib, or rather, what we need from it, for Debian as
> well. (I looked at your packages, but would prefer to do things in
> a more Debian way. No criticism, for a private repository they are
> good enough.) If so, I’ll update the gcc patch to build without
> DEB_STAGE set. Once I’ve had success, I’ll feed back the patches
> to the respective Debian package maintainers. Independent of whether
> atari-bootstrap needs mintlib, if I get bored I may port enough to
> get a hello world programme running on MiNT (or even TOS?) on ARAnyM,
> so the gcc maintainer can’t complain about the incompleteness of my
> patches ;-)
>
> This will take me some time, though; the m68k work has “idle priority”
> for me, i.e. I’m doing it when nothing else pops up, and to educate
> myself further (about m68k, Debian, porting, and other unixoid OSes).
>
> > PML)?
>
> What is PML? Your page only mentions a link to ftp.funet.fi which
> is pretty much saying nothing.
>
> Unfortunately, at the current time I do not know whether the climate
> in Debian would be welcoming to a full FreeMiNT (cross-built) develop-
> ment suite (there is precedent for a MinGW one though). But indepen-
> dent of that, my changes (especially the dpkg one) would help people
> reactivating “Debian GNU/MiNT”, which ragnar76 hinted at. (It’s at
> http://web.archive.org/web/20080517034704/http://debian-mint.nocrew.org/
> now, since all the Debian-related m68k stuff seems to have been thrown
> away from nocrew at some point.) From what I’ve seen so far, doing it
> would be relatively easy with those patches and what I’ve invested into
> Debian proper until now, just time-consuming.
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
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