Developers' Blogs: DNAku

Tomorrow my last exams, after that I should have time again to work on the PPC-port. So what have I done the last few days? I continued working on fwpkgcreator (and also studied of course ). The cli version is nearly finished, just a few more things I want to implement. You can view the changes on darcsweb.

And if you're interested in trying it, you can always get it by doing
darcs get http://darcs.frugalware.org/repos/fwpkgcreator
and then just executing the install script. Beware: depending on the moment of the day, it may or may not work. After installing it you can start the cli version by typing either fwpkgmaker or fwpkgcreator --cli.
I already used it this afternoon to write the FrugalBuild of PearPC. It's not perfect, but it makes me write FB's faster (which is actually quite logical because you have to type less).

That brings me to the next subject. The PearPC developers finally released version 0.4 of PearPC. This is the first version that compiles with ggc-4. So I compiled it as soon as I could and added it to the current-extra repository.

Why is this so important to me? Well, the newest version can emulate both G3 and G4 PPC chips. That way I'll be able to test fw-ppc on more than one PowerPC architecture. If people want it to be tested on a G5, they'll have to donate me a G5. As a matter of fact, if you have any Mac (or Pegasos) hardware that you don't need anymore, you can always donate it to me. Macs starting from the G3 will be used as buildmachines, pre-G3 (and 68k) macs will just be added to my collection because trying to put linux on one of those is a hell.

PegasosPPC hardware is also welcome of course. The kernel needs a slightly different configuration to work on a Pegasos machine, but because I have none at the moment I can't test it.
I think that's about everything I needed to say.