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- From: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer)
- Subject: Re: porting GNU stuff to MINIX
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.160615.6981@email.tuwien.ac.at>
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- Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
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- Distribution: comp
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:06:15 GMT
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- ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
-
-
- >What are the obstacles to installing stuff from GNU under MINIX?
-
- Size. Most GNU tools are large and most machines running Minix are
- small. If you have a machine with a 68k processor or a 386 (and the
- 32-bit version of Minix) and at least 4MB RAM there should be little
- problem.
-
- > For example,
- >if I obtain the GNU C Compiler from prep.ai.mit.edu and download it to
- >a PC running minix, will it compile under the residentminix C compiler
- >and will it work right?
-
- Compiling GCC under Minix is probably a little difficult, since the
- usual Minix C compilers (including bcc) lack floating point support. I
- tried to cross-compile GCC 2.2.2 on a DECstation but had only limited
- success (I can create .o files on the workstation which will link
- correctly under Minix, but if I link them on the workstation, they will
- not execute on Minix). You can get gcc 1.37.1 binaries for Minix/386
- from various FTP sites.
-
- > DItto for all the other GNU stuff.
-
- Most other GNU programs work well.
-
- Peter
-
- PS: I have a 386 with 8MB. I can't say much about other configurations.
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