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- From: Stephen Usher <steve@earth.ox.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: MiNT 0.99 source code
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 13:45:39 BST
- In-Reply-To: <9301251326.AA16004@phlim.ph.kcl.ac.uk>; from "sjg@uk.ac.kcl.ph.phlim" at Jan 25, 93 1:26 pm
-
- >Well, Eric, I compiled it without any real problems on the cross-
- >compiler at College, (Actually the first use I've put the compiler
- >to :-), and it seems to work fine most of the time.
- >
- >The startup message is a bit different ;-) and I wasn't sure what
- >the relevance of -DMULTITOS was, so I compiled both. The Multitos
- >kernel one failed at once, so presumably you have to have a Falcon
- >to run that, but the other kernel (30k larger) worked great, if...
-
- The standard makefile should produce both a 68000 version AND an 68030
- specific version by default. The 68030 specific binary being called
- mint030.prg.
-
- >
- >Problem: I can't get it to run anything apart from GEM with the
- >INIT= line in the mint.cnf file in /mint. I've got 2 .xfs files
- >in there, and mint.cnf. I tried it using INIT.PRG (the multi-user
- >package for MiNT), and with tcsh.ttp - neither worked. I've changed
- >nothing apart from the MiNT version (0.95pl13 ->0.99pl2). The system
- >just hangs on the welcome message if there is an INIT= line.
- >(for GEM to run, I just comment out the INIT= line)
- >
- >This could be a peculiarity of my setup, but anyone running the
- >MiNT distribution kit will have almost exactly the same setup.
- >I thought I understood the Mint.cnf stuff, but maybe not...
- >
- >I compiled 0.99 with the patchlevel 25 libraries. I'm going to
- >compile the patchlevel 27 libraries asap, I'll tell you if the
- >problem still remains.
- >
- >Simon.
- >
-
- Well, 0.99 works fine for me.. in fact I can now use memory protection with
- used to break my tcsh under 0.98. If you like, I could send you a copy of my
- mint.prg for you to try.
-
- Steve
-
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