Re: [MiNT] Native GCC built

[Jean-François Lemaire <jflemaire@skynet.be>]

On Tuesday 19 November 2013 07:19:12 Miro Kropáček wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Miro Kropáček 
<miro.kropacek@gmail.com>wrote:
> > Keep in mind if we choose the m68000 way, it wont be possible to rebuild
> > GCC on FireBee (natively, as the bootstrap) because the code produced will
> > be 68000, not CF, i.e. not possible to boostrap. So perhaps I have just
> > answered myself but it's better to check with others I guess.
> 
> Another advantage of having non-68000 by default is the fact that you can
> take all the Sparemint RPMs and rebuild them without any hassle for
> ColdFire (once you've got 'rpm' compiled, that is).

As far as I'm concerned, that's settled, then. The lack of ColdFire packages 
(whether for Gentoo or Sparemint) is a problem that needs to be addressed.

Thanks again, Miro.

Cheers,
JFL
-- 
Jean-François Lemaire