Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!giger From: giger@cbmehq.UUCP (Thomas Giger ESCO) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: GNU Development Possible? Message-ID: <2679@cbmehq.UUCP> Date: 15 Jan 91 10:57:23 GMT References: Reply-To: giger@cbmehq.UUCP (Thomas Giger ESCO) Distribution: comp Organization: Commodore ESCO (European Support & Coordination Office) Lines: 27 In article jkh@bambam.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >>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. [...] >"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?" While I would encourage use of the GNU C compiler for its better speed optimization, let me tell you that it really isn't that bad. Actually, I would have been the one to say that quoted phrase above. But I'm sure I didn't. In some cases I may have asked "Did you try the gcc too?" - but that's a simple cross check everyone would do. For two rather large porting projects the companies used /bin/cc without any problems - all I had to help them was to find the right libraries to link with (SVR4 introduced some new names they weren't used to). It will be interesting to see a speed comparision between cc and gcc when they re-do these ports with gcc. rgds, Thomas. -- Thomas Giger, Technical Support Manager Commodore European Support & Coordination Office (ESCO) UUCP: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmehq!giger