Re: m68k MANIFEST for xfree86_4.0.1-11
"Christian T. Steigies" wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 01:53:52AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
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> > Ben Collins wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:46:49PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote:
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> > > > Could a cross-compile environment bring this down? Is there any *need*
> > > > to compile these things on an m68k? I imagine those new g4s are a bit
> > > > faster... :)
> We don't _need_ to compile it on m68k, since it does not even work yet. But
> I still have some hope that one or more of the zillions of m68k users step
> forward to pick up the pieces and make X work (btw no reply yet from the X
> guy, Michael).
If you mean Egbert, I guess he's at least as busy as Branden. :)
> We don't do cross compiling for packages, might speed up things though for
> these test builds. But I don't think my P2-400 would be so much faster than
> my 060@50 that its worth the hassle
Not so sure. I have such a machine here, and a BuildServonly build takes about
an hour, so a full build would probably be 2-4 hours (right?).
> > Looked at UAE yet? Don't know if that emulates an 68040...
> AFAIR UAE only emulates up to 68020 and no MMU. That will not boot
> linux-m68k (I tried once). You can boot uclinux however (Geert had success
> with this) but that does not help building X for m68k.
Why not?
Michel
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