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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!panix!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: fire@MCS.COM (Bradley Scott Slavik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: NetBSD for Mac [Q] Date: 4 Jun 1994 10:28:56 -0500 Organization: MCSNet Services Lines: 34 Message-ID: <2sq6jo$4k@Mercury.mcs.com> References: <2smb19$m7r@pnet1.pnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.mcs.com jmartin@pnet1.pnet.com (Absinthium Booksellers) writes: >I raised a question on comp.mac.programming asking if anyone has tried >porting *ix (or any os for that matter) to the Mac. Someone said that >some students were working on a project called ALICE, while another >mentioned that NetBSD was being worked on for the mac. I'd like to know >more about this, and if needed, could offer my assistance in the >creation. >-John >jmartin@pnet.com John, I am also distressed with the lack of a decent Unix environment that is affordable on the Mac. To this end I am porting Gnu to the Mac. Anyone who wants to help by answering technical questions can send me email. Expect the first pieces gcc gligc, GnuMake, bash, autoconf, M4 to run under MPW in about 4 weeks. I am still wrestling with design plans for standalone versions of these. The gnuMake will eventually have an option to create MPW makefiles and Think Projects based on Unix makefiles. This will be distributed under the general Gnu license. I know there have been at least 3 ports of GnuCC to the mac already but they were not full ports. I intend to make every effort to make every feature of gcc available on the mac. One of the interesting mac fixes is going to be to the filenames. Unix uses / and mac uses : for directories. I will probably put a fix in the cpp (c pre processor) Take care. Bradley