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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: Re: Unified MINIX GNU port
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.210856.3991@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Summary: Here's a script called gcc to do the conversion
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
References: <43079@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1974@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Feb 91 02:08:56 GMT
Lines: 49

In article <1974@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> eesrajm@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Andrew J Michael) writes:
>2.  Add an entirely separate conversion program, as Alan Black did for the
>386.  This is nice and simple, and does not require alterations to gcc-ld.
>Unfortunately it also means adding extra lines to every Makefile in 
>existence.

NO!  This isn't necessary.  I wrote a little shell script called "gcc",
renamed the real gcc to gcc-exec, and the shell script does the conversion
after the real compile is finished.  It's so short I include it here in
both clear text and uuencoded.

--- snip snip ---
#!/bin/sh

gcc-exec $*
case $? in
	0)	;;
	*)  exit 1;;
esac

out="a.out"
c=""
while test -n "$1"; do
	case "$1" in
		-o) out="$2"; shift ;;
		-c) exit 0 ;;	# no executable generated
		*) ;;
	esac
	shift
done	
gcc2minix <$out >gcc$$
mv gcc$$ $out
exec chmod +x $out
--- snip snip ---
begin 644 gcc.sh
M(R$O8FEN+W-H"@IG8V,M97AE8R`D*@IC87-E("0_(&EN"@DP*0D[.PH)*BD@
M(&5X:70@,3L["F5S86,*"F]U=#TB82YO=70B"F,](B(*=VAI;&4@=&5S="`M
M;B`B)#$B.R!D;PH)8V%S92`B)#$B(&EN"@D)+6\I(&]U=#TB)#(B(#L["@D)
M+6,I(&5X:70@,"`[.PDC(&YO(&5X96-U=&%B;&4@9V5N97)A=&5D"@D)*BD@
M.SL*"65S86,*"7-H:69T"F1O;F4)"F=C8S)M:6YI>"`\)&]U="`^9V-C)"0*
A;78@9V-C)"0@)&]U=`IE>&5C(&-H;6]D("MX("1O=70*
`
end

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