Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!otter.hpl.hp.com!hpltoad!ghiggins!gjh From: gjh@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Graham Higgins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: GNU s/w Message-ID: Date: 6 Nov 90 20:28:15 GMT Sender: news@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: ghiggins.hpl.hp.com I received a canonical answer to my broadcast message to jbammi on comp.sys.atari.st This has turned into a technical issue ... Jwahar Bammi has left his postgrad position at CWRU and got a job as a unix guru somewhere. Unless someone else is in a position to do so and is willing, it means that there ain't gonna be any more updates to the GNU C suite. (Version 1.37.1 is the last we have). I have access to a Sun3 running OS4 here and have the GNU C distribution sources plus JB's diff files for adding the ST-specifics. Unfortunately, I'm neither C nor Unix literate, so am floundering unless all goes without a hitch. It used to, but we've had an OS upgrade on the Sun and all bets are off :-( Can I invite all you GNU C users out there to join forces to try and keep the ST versions of the GNU suite alive? For example, the ST version of gas is 1.34, 1.37 is available and so are the coff patches for gas 1.37. Does anyone know whether it's worth trying 1. The port of gas 1.37? 2. Applying the coff patches? Is coff likely to be applicable to the ST architecture? Is it worth at least getting an email list together? Gray ====