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From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S Woan)
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Subject: Has GNU stuff been ported?
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Date: 15 May 91 13:47:39 GMT
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In article <1991May15.035019.10918@swsrv1.cirr.com> toma@swsrv1.cirr.com (Tom Armistead) writes:
>Specifically - has anyone ported (or know of a port) for the following?
>    gcc    - v1.39
no, though the FSF catalog says that 2.0 will be supported on this platform

>    gdb    - v3.5
no, I suspect this has to do with not having gcc

>    emacs  - v18.56+
starting with 18.56, GNU EMACS provides builtin AIX 3.1 support

>    rcs    - v5.5

Someone here reported that it ported without problems

>Does the RS/6000's AIX come with a debugger other than sdb?

dbx and it's X based counterpart xde are provided.

You might contact Saber and check how their product is coming along...
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