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From: sverre@lars.Seri.GOV (Sverre Froyen)
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Subject: Re: sources?
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Date: 7 Jan 91 15:36:58 GMT
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>
>As expressed before, I'd be willing to help rectify this if there
>is any interest out there.

Yes, YES, YES!!! (there is interest).

>> 	On Prentice-Hall floppy?
>
>This is a poor solution for those of us with no way to read them.
>(Perhaps I shouldn't assume that one can use pc532 Minix without a
>piece of Intel garbage.)

I would suggest FTP first and DOS floppies second.  Minix floppies
only work if (i) you have a floppy drive on your 532 (which I suspect
most of us do not have) or (ii) you have a PC running Minix (a PC
running DOS is much easier to borrow).

I would also prefer to see patches against some well defined original
(e.g. GNU sources) rather than the whole thing.  (I realize, of course,
that in many cases there is no well defined original.)  In addition
a working binary might be useful, see below.

>
>I've also ported smail 2.5.  Only a couple of minor changes; I'm
>not sure if I posted about this or not.

No, this was not posted.

>
>>     ksh:
>> 	posted to pc532-src.
>
>>From what I could figure you first need to port ESTDIO to get this
>running.  Seems to me I grabbed it but ran out of time to spend on
>porting that too.

I started on this too and immediately ran into problems.  The Minix
shell would choke on the configuration scripts, and Minix make could
not handle the make files.  I decided to start from the bottom with
gcc 1.38, bash, gnu make, file utils, etc.  I have a working gcc 1.38
and an almost working bash (thanks to Bruce and the guys in Finland).
(I'll be happy to post my changes, however, since I know very little about
compilers and I just sent off my changes to Bruce I think it would
be better to wait for his stamp of approval before making this version
official).

Enough rambling.  What I really set out to say was that there seems
to be a bootstrap problem.  A number of the gnu (and other) utilities
are difficult or impossible to port without some other utility running.
Therefore, it would be useful also to have working binaries available,
e.g., for FTP.  Furthermore, when you are posting patches, a short
description of your system (e.g. what other utilities are needed) would
be very useful.

Sverre
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