Any chance to package up the ia16 toolchain in an Ubuntu PPA? about gcc-ia16 HOT 10 CLOSED

Thank you! I will look into this. I am not familiar with creating PPAs yet, so it will probably take a while.

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Is there a reason not to simply upstream the toolchain to GCC?

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Upstreaming would the ultimate goal, though I suspect that could take some time to happen and of course to filter down to distros would take much longer.

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Makes sense, thanks.

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Well, after a few days of trial and error, I have finally created an Ubuntu source package for Jenner's Binutils IA-16 port, and uploaded it to my PPA. :-)

I hope to also set up source packages for Newlib, GCC proper, as well as libgcc1, though I expect the build dependencies between these to be a bit trickier to untangle (e.g. in build.sh Newlib depends on stage 1 GCC, and stage 2 GCC depends on Newlib).

Also, I have not yet got Launchpad to create source packages using a "recipe", so I will be looking into this.

Thank you!

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Thank you, that's great!

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My PPA is now up and ready. :)

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For the curious, the code for creating the source packages is in the build-ia16 component, specifically the script redist-ppa.sh and the files in ppa-pkging/. I currently run the script on my PC to create the source packages, but (as stated) I hope to get Launchpad to help do this work.

Thank you!

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I added the ppa, installed the i386 version and then compiled freedos successfully.
Thanks, that's great, it's just what I needed.

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Glad to hear that. Thank you!

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