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- Subject: Re: porting GNU stuff to MINIX
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- From: system@kryton.UUCP (Scott Beckstead)
- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 15:57:09 PDT
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- ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
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- >
- > What are the obstacles to installing stuff from GNU under MINIX? 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? DItto for all the other GNU stuff.
- >
- > There is other free software that I would also be interested in
- > installing, such as the group theory package GAP. Has anyone tried to
- > install in under minix?
- >
- > Allan Adler
- > ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
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- Only if minix has eliminated the 64k page size limit and ONLY on a 386.
- Probably only with the compiler that is used on the 386 minix port. On
- the 68000 side I don't think it is a problem.
- Scott
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