Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!brunix!rca From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: g++ 1.39 installation. help Message-ID: <67994@brunix.UUCP> Date: 10 Mar 91 09:07:53 GMT References: Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Distribution: comp Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 35 In article scott@erick.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes: #In article cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu writes: # the following is in the README distributed with the g++-1.39.0.tar.Z: # # #*Very Important* [For non-GAS users]: If you do not use GAS, GNU C++ # #may need to use its own crt0.c, borrowed and modified from GNU Emacs. # #You should verify that the crt0.c provided is fed suitable definitions # #for correct compilation. If you have GNU Emacs, and you are not # #compiling to a SUN, consult your local GNU Emacs guru, to see what # #sort of #defines are required for proper operation. # # Since the latest GAS distribution does not support the '040, obviously # I will not be installing or using GAS. # [...] #Then again, don't be so sure that /bin/as isn't gas. Though I can't #check without an OD-capable system at hand, I believe that NeXT #distributed as source with the other GNU source in 1.0. Thus, I #would tend to believe that as is gas by another name. Try it! Typing: % as -v yields: Gnu assembler version 1.28 (I guess.) The "(I guess.)" is part of the output and was not added by me... Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." G.B. Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet