Re: [MiNT] Software packaging (was: opkg / coldmint)

[Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk> wrote:

has anyone
considered an iterim solution of each program dynamically loading its own
copy of libs that are not shared in memory ?

Actually, this is really an easy task. a.out mint binaries (=libraries, too) contains all needed info for such thing. One would need to tweak binutils a little to not to link the libraries but to link a loader with a list of filenames to load instead.

Anyway, this wont solve the packager problems. What we need is *any* packaging system and someone willing to maintain / build the packages. That's all. As soon as you've got autobuilds running, static/dynamic linking is not that important anymore.

Btw Ole is right, you can't blame opkg, everything what uses forks and pipes is slow as hell on FreeMiNT (simple ./configure will show you how ;)).

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