Xref: utzoo comp.unix.aix:4741 gnu.misc.discuss:2867 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mrlaxe.mrl.uiuc.edu!andreess From: andreess@mrlaxe.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Has anyone ported GNU-make to IBM RS-6000/AIX? Message-ID: <1991Apr24.200143.26406@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 24 Apr 91 20:01:43 GMT References: <1991Apr22.202418.2154@cs.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana Lines: 30 In article jae@iastate.edu (Edwards John Andrew) writes: > The title says it all: Has anyone ported GNU-make to the IBM RS-6000 > running AIX? I ran into troubles with arscan.c (the format of AIX's .a > files appears to be somewhat alternative), but before I dig into it, I > figured I'd try the net to see if someone's already solved this. > >I have been wondering the same thing. Apparently, it is due to >be released with gcc-2.00, whenever that appears. I would like >very much to have it available because I also want G++ on this >box. Look on export.lcs.mit.edu, in contrib/gmake-6000.tar.Z. I ported it myself before seeing this; it really isn't that difficult to do yourself if you're willing to weed out the differences between what the distribution expects and what AIX provides. >Alas, there also may be a political problem arising with IBM and >lawsuits, so the AIX/RS6000 port may *never* be available from >FSF. Huh? This is new... the only problem I ever heard about was actually shipping Emacs with the system. Is there something else? (According to the FSF, GCC/G++ will support the RS/6000; also, Emacs 18.57 does right now...) Marc -- Marc Andreessen___________University of Illinois Materials Research Laboratory Internet: andreessen@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu____________Bitnet: andreessen@uiucmrl