Re: Advice wanted on porting (NeXT black)

Dale Amon as Operator (root@starbase1.gpl.net)
Sat, 5 Jul 1997 03:39:16 +0100 (BST)

Thanks for the many helpful replies. I'm going with the
madness at least for the first tentative steps. At the
moment I'm trying to fight may way through getting the
NeXT - linux m68k cross compiler past the building of
the cross libs. If I can get through that I can take
a swat at building the kernel. No drivers, but what the
hey?

Supposedly you don't need makeinfo for gnu stuff... but
I had to play games with both binutils and gnucc to
get the installs to complete without it. gcc 2.7.2.2
seems to have one .texi file in the distribution that is
newer than it's .info file... so it tries to makeinfo
and dies... just before installing /usr/local/bin/gcc.
What a pain. I had to reach out and "touch" someone to
sort it.

binutils was even worse. I ended up making a dummy
makeinfo with a renamed /bin/true :-)

I'll keep you informed of progress. Or lack of it if
such be the case...