From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Jan 29 03:54:41 2008 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [MiNT] coreutils & findutils From: Alan Hourihane To: Mark Duckworth Cc: mint In-Reply-To: <479E9A2F.7020407@atari-source.com> References: <1201556589.14001.27.camel@localhost> <479E9A2F.7020407@atari-source.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:50:21 +0000 Message-Id: <1201596621.14001.35.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 22:14 -0500, Mark Duckworth wrote: > Alan Hourihane wrote: > > So, > > > > I've moved onto these two newer packages. I know Vincent had some > > preliminary patches on his website fore coreutils, and I've got updated > > ones now. > > > > But these two (and probably newer GNU tools) benefit from some new libc > > functionality, which in our case needs more kernel support in FreeMiNT. > > > > So I've implemented, fdopendir/fchdir/dirfd functions for both libc & > > freemint and I'm testing these two packages with them at the moment. All > > looks good. > > > > If testing goes well I'll send them to the list at the end of the week > > including the needed patches for coreutils & findutils. > > > > Alan. > > > > > > > > > Alan, > > I already ported a recent coreutils if you want the rpm/scripts. I > ported a LOT of those packages. But unfortunately things like procps > will need lots of changes to be compatible. To be honest I'd love a > "top" implementation that is just as functional as on linux. I don't know how recent, but I'm using 6.9. Alan.