Hello, On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Andreas B. Mundt <a...@debian.org> wrote:
> With the current version, the Z80 ROM dumpers (ti73 - ti86) are built > using spasm, which is not packaged for Debian, and the 68k ROM dumpers > (ti89 - v200) are built using tigcc/gcc4ti, which is also free > software, but not packaged for Debian either. > > To be able to compile the program with standard tools, the > pre-compiled code of the ROM-dumpers is included in the source. This > code needs to be removed for DFSG reasons. > > So for the time being, I fear we have to live with not supporting ROM > dumps - if you have an idea how to solve the issue please let me > know. The package is available here: > > <URL: > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-science/packages/libticalcs.git > > > The spasm Z80 assembler is relatively easy to package, and we should have no problem packaging that to satisfy the need for a compiler (or rather, assembler) to produce the binaries for the Z80 ROM dumpers. However, TIGCC/GCC4TI is another problem, in that the tool is a heavily patched outdated version of binutils/gcc, and that it has a very strange developer environment in order to function. (Specifically, it relies on shell scripts to produce binaries, and requires a certain TIGCC environmental variable to do anything...) I'm in discussion with upstream on what could be done to resolve this. But that probably deserves another email/thread on debian-mentors... Thanks! Albert
