Re: [linuxdc-dev] New to this list, many questions

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On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 03:02:57 -0500
"M. R. Brown" <mr...@0x...> wrote:
> We've never gotten around to it.  It is *planned*, one of our developers is
> working on getting Gentoo[.org] bootstrapped, and of course you already
> have a sizeable unstable debian distro to play with.

i'm almost done with my clumpos port to openmosix, named plumpos. soon as that's done i'll get started on the gentoo port. more than likely i won't make an iso immediately, but more of a gentoo-ish way of allowing one to pick the apps he/she wants in his/her iso and to emerge them with the dreamcast toolchain. several devs have been working on the uClibc and gcc 3.2 toolchain, which i think is great, but they seem to be stuck on a few bugs. gentoo 1.4 (which will be released VERY soon) uses gcc 3.2, and i can't port 1.4 using an older gcc. why? for one, the binary incompatibility in gcc 3.2 means someone's x86 gentoo 1.4 distribution will be incompatible with someone's sh4 gentoo 1.4 distribution. yes yes, the binaries already don't just copy over, but there are other things which come into play and it just doesn't seem right, so most likely the first dc port will be gentoo 1.3-based.

i just installed debian for the first time (sucessfully) on a new-ish openmosix node, so that means i can prolly update the old dreamcast distribution with ease (once i read the dodes docs and figure out the bootstrapper). if anyone really wants a new iso, i could do one for the time being...