Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool2.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!pcsbst!jkh From: jkh@bambam.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: re: GNU Development Possible? Message-ID: Date: 14 Jan 91 06:27:15 GMT Sender: news@pcsbst.pcs.com Distribution: comp Organization: PCS Computer Systems, GmbH Lines: 22 >Is Amiga UNIX going to be sufficiently solid to enable me to get >GNU EMACS, GNU CC, and other GNU software up and running, and to I've seen all of the above already running under Amiga Unix. According to one German developer I talked to, gcc is in fact the compiler of choice on that machine. For various political reasons they've been trying to get the AT&T compiler to Do The Right Thing, but he said a frequently heard phrase heard around Commodore (Germany) was "What do you mean your program doesn't work? What compiler did you use? /bin/cc?? Oh, well, that's your problem. Why didn't you use gcc?" (liberally translated from the German, of course :-). So the short answer is: Yes, the GNU tools have by-and-large already been ported by Commodore. I hope that they release them with the machine, but there are obviously no guarantees. Jordan -- PCS Computer Systeme GmbH, Munich, West Germany UUCP: pyramid!pcsbst!jkh jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com EUNET: unido!pcsbst!jkh ARPA: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu or hubbard@decwrl.dec.com