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From: steven@m2xenix.psg.com (Steven Furber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: GCC, /etc/gettydefs, UUCP
Message-ID: <1990Nov1.063007.20070@m2xenix.psg.com>
Date: 1 Nov 90 06:30:07 GMT
References: <34959@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon US
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In article <34959@nigel.ee.udel.edu> benhalzm@uhura.aston.ac.uk (ZM BEN-HALIM) writes:
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>If anyone is interested in GCC for the mac, in view of FSF boycott, check
>out apple.com in the directory pub/gnu you will find the file 
>gcc-1.37.tar.Z (size is 2741617 bytes). This obviously is not for Minix
>but may be easier to port the the FSF's version.

I was told that MacMINIX is binary compatible with ST-MINIX, so I
grabbed the ST version of GCC.  Well-- I keep getting the same recurring
problems over and over again.

When calling 'gcc' I am told that cpp cannot be found.  I coppied
gcc-cpp to cpp, and the problem after that is 'H[unprintable]B not
found'.  After this I moved cpp in the current working directory.
Nothing better happened.

Seeing how my luck wasn't very good, I decided to try 'egrep' (included
with the GCC binaries from the Internet site) to see what sorts of
wonderful complaints it would have when given no filename.  All I got
was 'usage:' BOMB, with the 'reboot' dialog giving an error of 'ID=03'.

If anyone has got the ST binary of GCC or GCC in any form working under
MacMINIX (yeah, I already asked about this and got suggestions of
looking for the ST binary...) I'd appreciate any information that might
lead to a successful GCC use.

For the sake of thoroughness: I have 4mg of RAM, 30mg of MINIX
partition, and am running with a rather standard SE (no FPU, color
cards, internal garbage, etc..).

(Yes: this is the same as deo@eecs.cs.pdx.edu)