[Coco] GCC6809 cross compiler, assembler & linker

[James Jones]

That's not a command; it's a line to add to a file to tell apt where to
find the .deb files that Mr. Volden has kindly created and made available.
Which file? Here are your choices:

1. /etc/apt/sources.list
2. a file that lives in the directory /etc/apt/sources.list.d

I'd suggest (2), and moreover suggest creating a new file for the purpose,
say, tormodvolden-m6809.list, to suggest what it lets you install. Make the
file belong to user and group root, and have rw permission for root, just
read for everybody else. You can have comments (starting with # ) in the
file so you can put in reminders for yourself.

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Hi Tormod,
> I tried
> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/m6809/ubuntu trusty main
> on my Debian Linux box and found that deb is not a recognized command so I
> did
> apt-get install deb
> and got an error on that as well.
> I also tried to get the add-apt-repository package as well with the same
> not found kind of result.
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Kip Koon
> computerdoc at sc.rr.com
> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/User:Computerdoc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Tormod
> Volden
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2017 1:46 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] GCC6809 cross compiler, assembler & linker
>
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Kip Koon wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> > I have been tracking y'all's email conversations about GCC6809.  I
> >didn't know there were 3 different  versions of it!  Several years
> >back, I had GCC6809 running in Cygwin originally.  It took while and
> >quite a bit
>
> There have been many hands on it over the years, from Tom Jones in 1992,
> Matthias Dörfel in 1999, before Brian Dominy in 2009 and now our William
> Astle and David Flamand.
>
> > of effort to figure it all out.  I went back and forth on the internet
> to try to find something that would work.  Ultimately I did get GCC6809
> running.  Because of all the difficulty compiling, installing and getting
> GCC6809 to run on Cygwin, I hadn't even considered trying it again.  That
> is until now.
> > So my question is which version of GCC6809 should I try?
> > Tormod, would your version of GCC6809 compile, install and run
> successfully on Cygwin and Debian as it does on Ubuntu?
>
> You can use my PPA with Debian, just add the source list entries for
> "trusty" to your /etc/apt/sources.list, and apt-get update && apt-get
> install gcc6809. That's the easiest you can do.
>
> It should compile on Cygwin but as you have experienced it might take some
> effort.
>
> The version in my PPA is basically the one from William, which is based on
> Brian's and ported to LWTOOLS. David's is also based on Brian's and is
> using David's own linker. I haven't tried building that one so I cannot
> help much there.
>
> > I now have a 64 bit version of Cygwin called Cygwin64 running on my
> primary Windows 7 installation on my laptop.  I also recently installed the
> latest version of Debian Linux which is v9.1 if memory serves on an old HP
> Mini-tower.  It works quite nicely by the way.  I have all 3 serial ports
> of my MAXI09 connected to the Linux box so I can access the MAXI09 board
> through my network.  It is quite cool to see that happen.  The Debian Linux
> box was setup so I would have the same development platform as Lawrence
> Manning's setup in England.  Having identical  Linux setups makes the
> software development a lot easier to manage.  So, Cygwin64 and Debian are
> the 2 Linux installations I would like to put GCC6809 on as soon as I can
> figure out which one to use.
> > Tormod, what is your expert opinion as to which GCC6809 package is the
> best one to compile, install and run an these 2 Linux installations?
>
> Cygwin != Linux :) And if you have a Linux installation, why would you
> punish yourself with Cygwin?
>
> > I would also be interested in any Linux software that y'all are able to
> successfully port over to NitrOS-9/OS-9.  Take care my friends.
>
> For those who want to run Linux'y, or rather, older UNIX software, on the
> CoCo and Dragon, FUZIX is maybe a better route to go.
>
> Tormod
>
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