i get the recent main branch? Or am i doing something wrong?
if that commands succeeded, you are doing perfectly well :) Other than main branch is specified with "-r" switch.
If there is a 'howto proper compile FreeMiNT using EasyMiNT install plus GCC 4.2.2 / Binutils 2.20' i was unable to find, please give me a link.
installing gcc / binutils is quite easy, just type "cd /" and tar xjf path_to_gcc_or_binutils.tar.bz2 and that's it.