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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: Re: Unified MINIX GNU port
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.234455.10126@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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Date: 30 Jan 91 04:44:55 GMT
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In article <43079@nigel.ee.udel.edu> HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) writes:
>My question, would it be tolerable to use the originial GNU a.out format and
>design a conversion program that converts GNU binaries to MINIX binaries

Sorry to disappoint you, but this has already been done.  I've forgotten
where I got it, but I have gcc up and running on my Minix-386 box, and
it produces a non-Minix a.out which is converted to Minix via a program
called, oddly enough, 'gcc2minix'.  It works fine when you put a nice
front end shell script onto it that calls gcc and then gcc2minix.

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