[MiNT] Some MiNT software

[Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>]

Hello.

I have cross-compiled some classic GNU/Linux software for MiNT (only 68000 
CPU). Everything is available here:
http://vincent.riviere.free.fr/soft/m68k-atari-mint/archives/mint/
The binaries are named *-bin-mint-*.tar.bz2 and are ready to be unpacked and 
used on a standard MiNT system. Beware, there is no uninstall feature.

I don't want to make a new distribution, I simply wanted to see the things 
on my own. And it works very well ! I had to make very little patching to 
compile most packages. This is due to the excellent UNIX-like compatibility 
provided by the FreeMiNT kernel and the MiNTLib.

For each package, I have included the sources, the patch (if necessary), the 
build script (for cross-compiling) and the binary package. As the official 
source packages are not always as clean as expected, my build scripts 
contain some valuable tricks to allow cross-compilation for MiNT. It will be 
possible to confront my build scripts and patches with the ones shipped with 
SpareMiNT and Gentoo packages, to determine the best settings as a standard 
choice for the MiNT platform.

For my personal usage, I have made a minimal FreeMiNT distribution using 
ARAnyM, the latest daily build of the FreeMiNT kernel, and those packages. 
It works only on the full-screen BIOS console (no GEM), but it is enough to 
test textmode software.

For me, the biggest interest of that stuff is having been able to recompile 
everything, using the latest sources and compiler. So it will be possible to 
recompile everything again for ColdFire, simply by changing the CPU option 
in the build scripts. It will be possible to run that software on ColdFire 
machines as soon as FreeMiNT will be fully patched for ColdFire.

More than the classic command-line tools, I have compiled some less common 
packages, useful for Atari people:
- The packers: ncompress, gzip, bzip2, xz
- The archivers: tar, arc, lha, zip, arj, zoo
- tofrodos: dos2unix, unix2dos
- util-linux-ng: more, cal, whereis...
- ctris: a textmode Tetris ! Works well on TosWin and Conholio

I will not support those packages, but if they can be useful for someone, 
for testing or making RPMs, enjoy :-)

--
Vincent Rivière