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From: holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: gcc for the mac
Keywords: gcc
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Date: 20 Jun 89 20:02:40 GMT
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In article <16961@gryphon.COM> jspear@gryphon.COM (Jon Spear) writes:
>In article <2377@etive.ed.ac.uk> gja@etive.ed.ac.uk (A Cunningham) writes:
>>
>>	I read recently in gnu.gcc that someone inside Apple had ported gcc
>>to the mac. If it's true could someone point me in the direction of gcc
>>for the mac. I have a recent GNU distribution tape so a set of diffs might
>>be enough. 
>
>Yes, someone at Apple (I forget the name) ported gcc to A/UX.  He made it
>available for ananymous FTP on apple.com in some obvious location. The
>files were quite large, but I think there were some diffs among them.

You can't miss the name.  It's smeared all over gnu.gcc.  If you have
trouble locating it (and you feel brave), just post a request on gnu.gcc :)

Seriously, here's the info you need:
>The distribution is available by anonymous ftp from ~ftp/gnu from either
>apple.com (or for internal sites only, goofy)
>
>        gcc-1.35.aux.bin.Z      - compiled version of the compiler.  Place
>                gcc in /usr/local/bin and others in /usr/local/lib.  This
>                isn't everything necessary to run gcc, it's just enough to
>                compile the distribution.  Unfortunately, the A/UX compiler
>                can't cope.
>
>        gcc-1.35.aux.diffs.Z    - differences to be applied to the standard
>                gcc-1.35 distribution.
>
>        gcc-1.35.aux.tar.Z      - complete gcc-1.35 distribution with A/UX
>                changes applied.

Fred Hollander
Computer Science Center
Texas Instruments, Inc.
hollander@ti.com

The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.