Last time I tried doing stuff with a kernel I ended up reinstalling a whole operating system after I found my results. I seem to remember gentoo in that respect. I did get frobtads-3 to build and run on this chromebook earlier. to do it, dependencies are cmake libcurl4-gnutls-dev and libncurses-dev. Then git clone https://github.com/realnc/frobtads follow instructions in ~/frobtads/doc/INSTALLATION and the build will take a while to get done. The games are at https://ifarchive.org/indexes/tads/ and will work well with speakup. Debian also has glulxe for the infocom games.
