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From: thakur@ZERKALO.HARVARD.EDU (Manavendra K. Thakur)
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Subject: Managed to get g++ and libg++.a installed
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Date: 27 Nov 89 00:59:18 GMT
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Hi everyone,

Many many thanks to the people who responded to my long plea for help
in installing g++ and libg++.a on a Sun 3 running 4.0.3.

With the help I received, I was able to successfully install the
compiler and library.

The bulk of my problems were arising because I wasn't using the Gnu
assembler.  Also, the discrepancies between the Makefiles, README, and
the texinfo files were confusing.

But I learned the correct way to install software, and I also learned
how to modify g++'s gcc.c file so that g++ would use an alternate name
for the Gnu ld.  This way, g++ can use the Gnu ld it needs, but gcc
and cc can continue using Sun's ld, which has the advantage of
supporting dynamic linking.

Thanks to:

Doug Lea	<dl@g.oswego.edu>
Stephen C. Pope	<scp@sfi.santafe.edu>
Michael Helm	<mike@grainne.lbl.gov>

As well as anyone else out there whose mail I might not have received.


                                Manavendra K. Thakur
                                System Manager, High Energy Division
                                Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophyics
                                thakur@zerkalo.harvard.edu
                                thakur@cfa.harvard.edu