hns@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Henning Spruth) (04/18/91)
I have successfully upgraded my P&H Minix 1.5 to Minix-386 - praise to all the authors like ast and Bruce Evans who made that possible. May They Live Eternally In Bliss. Now that I'm looking around for further good stuff for Minix, I'm a little dizzied by the multitude of patches and extensions and the lack of documentation (this is not meant to be a complaint). So please pardon me if I'm putting up some ignorant beginner's questions, but I could not find any clues in the FAQ file. 1. Compilers Besides bcc (I assume that means Bruce's cc?) there exist some other C compilers, of which presumably gcc is the best and hugest. What about the other compilers like mcc and c68? Is it possible to rebuild the kernel using gcc? 2. estdio What's the use of this package except making stdio faster? 3. Minix-386 libc.a Is it normal that many functions like _exit are doubly defined in this library or did I something wrong when building Minix-386? What can I do about it? 4. ksh problem I couldn't compile ksh because the linker missed vfprintf(). Are there patches for this?
HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) (04/19/91)
c386 is ideally suited for MINIX-386 unless you can afford gcc. But c386 may still contain bugs since it is new and not used too lmuch. C.v.W.