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From: ladd@cbnewsc.att.com (david.ladd)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: GCC for MacMinix
Summary: it works...
Message-ID: <1990Nov5.201707.12997@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 5 Nov 90 20:17:07 GMT
References: <539@pdxgate.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <539@pdxgate.UUCP>, deo@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Steven Furber) writes:
> It does not appear that GCC compiled for ST-Minix will work for MacMinix, as I
> was told it was.
> 
> I have a copy of the diffs needed to get Minix to compiled for the ST, but I
> don't have a copy of gcc.1.36*, all I can find is gcc.1.37*.

Au Contraire, Mon Frere

I responded privately to the last poster who had problems, but
it looks like everyone wants to run gcc, so here goes...

Before I get too carried away here, please note that I've only
really compiled and run "hello world", but it did work.

- get gccbin.tar.Z, gcclib.tar.Z include.tar.Z from
	terminator.cc.umich.edu (remember binary mode)
        ^--- actually, this has a better name on the latest minix info sheet

- read them into minix, i.e. 
	macread gccbin.tar.Z | uncompress | tar xvf -

- install gcc in your path, and the compiler binaries (gcc-*)
  and libraries (*.[ao] from the gcclib archive)
	in /usr/local/lib


- install the gnu headers in /usr/local/gcc/include

- compile and run a test program...

- get mg.tar.Z, apply the gnu diffs, run make, watch the machine hang...

I'm still working on that last item.  Anyway, I'm using a 5 meg mac II,
system 6.0.5, the SADE version of MF, and running minix out of a 2500K
MF partition. I'll screw around with the memory sizing.

- as for sources, according to the readmes, they're in zoo fmt in
	the native atari ftp dirs. 

Now, my questions for the net....

 - what do you have to do to get ps to run? re-build the kernel,mm & fs?
	(maybe this will be easier with readable headers :-) )
 - I did try term -s 2400 -l /dev/tty2, but it didn't really work.
	Do I need to do some kind of flow-control stty for the
	serial port?  I was loosing characters badly..  kermit
	had similar probs...

-Dave Ladd (dal@iwtgo.ATT.COM)