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So the state of RPM is pretty much that
we cannot update RPM itself because it needs mmap()
functionality. Many packages would benefit from this so I turned
my attention to VM from packaging.
I could get things updated as is but I refuse to do things wrong
so unfortunately nothing is done at all ;)
With a modern GCC, needed for building coldfire packages, the
current sparemint source cannot be built due to various bugs all
over the place due to it all being old. Attempts to update result
in various difficulties like lack of mmap(). Not sure how Alan is
working around that, just renaming calls to malloc (which would
work) or what.
I have LOTS of work into a modern sparemint which involves
correcting all of the build vs run dependencies so that the system
can autobuild itself using it's own dep mapping. I have many many
updated packages but it is all 100% untested and cannot be
released as is.
If someone smarter promises to work on virtual memory, I will go
back to working on packaging and updating sparemint exclusively.
Thanks,
Mark
On 2/8/2013 10:21 AM, Miro Kropáček wrote:
Too late,
it's very unsatisfying when tools that are neede for compiling
the kernel are not present as rpms, this makes freemint for
the not so skilled user, like me, very intransparent
It's true. Keith and Mark were doing the RPM work now and
then but currently it's in a really bad shape. I don't know
how much you want to relate your work to RPM-based stuff,
perhaps Alan's Gentoo ( http://gentoo.atariforge.org/)
could help you here?
can't
compile the kernel with the installed tools?
The sad (?) truth is that 90% of people here use cross
compilers, so bugs in native builds are harder to spot.
Since Frank
has passed, there are no new mintlib or freemint packages in
the sparemint repo. I would like to help, but in the moment I
ran from one problem in to another.
It's not unsolvable. You don't need to compile stuff like
kernel, xaaes, mintlib etc by yourself, everything's available
on freemint.org.
If I were you, I'd take a look on Alan's work, Gentoo's
packages are more or less only simple tar.gz's, it's very
up-to-date and you don't need to mess with RPM crap.
O.K, maybe a
dumb question, but where can I find the -O, I thought I will
find it in the Makefile bit I can't find it in there.
Easiest you can do is to copy the command, remove (in a
text editor, for example) the '-O' and paste it back to the
terminal. Then 'make' will see that the binary is already
built and will jump to a next step.
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