Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru!kth.se!sunic!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!aipna!awb From: awb@uk.ac.ed.aipna (Alan W Black) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: 386 goodies sought Message-ID: Date: 13 Apr 91 14:42:37 GMT References: <1991Apr7.230652.3535@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@aipna.ed.ac.uk Organization: Dept of AI, Edinburgh University, UK Lines: 39 In-reply-to: rt2@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu's message of 7 Apr 91 23:06:52 GMT In article <1991Apr7.230652.3535@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> rt2@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Rens Troost) writes: > I've just gone through upgrading to 386 (thanks, Bruce) and now am looking > for some new stuff -- if I remember correctly someone had a set of diffs > for emacs. What is the status of this? > > Also, has anybody gotten bash working for minix? gdb? (this latter must be > a dream...) > > -Rens (Sorry I've been away so missed this). Much of the gnu software has been ported to MINIX 386. Currently on plains.nodak.edu (134.129.111.64 in pub/Minix/uk). This is includes binaries and patchs for gcc1.37.1 gas, the bin utilities, patches to the MINIX libraries. There is also a port of gnu emacs 18.55 (which contains a rather nasty bug regarding killing of sub-processes. I've since fixed this and I can send you a new set of patches if you want). The gcc *does* support floating point but not in a very efficient way. Since putting the stuff on plains we have ported much of the other gnu stuff. A lot of the smaller pieces don't really require cahnegs (e.g. diff, bison, fileutils) you just have to set the right defines in the makefile. We also have ported bash and gdb (3.5) which I'm willing to mail to anyone who is interested. I will put these on plains but have been waiting for the lastest version of bash before doing this. (We've also ported Austin Kyoto Common Lisp (using gcc as the compiler) it all runs neatly in 8Meg and can run serious common lisp programs -- though we are about to upgrade to 16Meg). Alan Alan W Black 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh, UK Dept of Artificial Intelligence tel: (+44) -31 650 2713 University of Edinburgh email: awb@ed.ac.uk