"Christian T. Steigies" wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 01:53:52AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Ben Collins wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:46:49PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > > > > > 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and the DRI project
