Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: The Revenge of the Geeks Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:13:02 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <50ff7620$0$80163$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <90OLs.55298$Ep5.21372@newsfe08.iad> <51008bba$0$294$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <51015c23$0$289$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <5101bcb2$0$283$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <5101f8d3$0$293$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <51044bde$0$290$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <51049ba3$0$293$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1359292382 19915 84.45.235.129 (27 Jan 2013 13:13:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:13:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:160594 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:49025 comp.databases.oracle.server:4176 comp.lang.java.programmer:21798 On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 01:38:24 -0600, BGB wrote: > I did at least get as far as confirming that a lot of my stuff built and > worked on ARM-based targets though. > Slightly OTT coment, but: I can confirm that C ports very easily to ARM within the Linux/gcc environment. My standard CLI editor is MicroEMACS and has been been for years in UNIX, Linux, OS/9 68K and DOS/Windows environments, so when I got a Debian-based RaspberryPi and found its editors were nano and a less- capable vi than I'm used to, of course I ported Microemacs. The only issue I has was that it is termcap-based but the RPi Debian port doesn't support termcap. However, a quick grab for the GNU termcap and Microemacs was up and running. No code changes needed at all[1]. I'm running my RPi in headless mode: if any of you are thinking of doing the same and would like to do the same without needing a direct attached keyboard and screen for the first boot, contact me offline for the gory details. [1] apart from the termcap file: surprisingly, GNU termcap doesn't support the 'tc' attribute but the RedHat termcap does, so I had to edit /etc/termcap to create a monolithic xterm definition for the RPi. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |