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From: jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: gcc problems
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Date: 6 Sep 88 16:26:00 GMT
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    Date: 2 Sep 88 10:51:04 GMT
    From: stormy.atmos.washington.edu!jeff@beaver.cs.washington.edu  (Jeff Bowden)

    I grabbed the gcc executables a few days ago.  I found that I had
    insufficient resources to run it (sob :-( ).  

Yah, I was afraid that would happen.  Please, everybody, read the blurb
file (GNUBLURB.TXT) before downloading it.  It's just too big for random
copying around.  The blurb contains a description of what's where, which
pieces of the distribution you'll need to do what, and what system
resources you'll need to run it.  Help keep net traffic down!

						  I uploaded it to a local BBS,
    though.  One person who downloaded it.  This person has a quite bit of
    experience programming on the ST but I don't think he knows a lot about
    Unix.

Neither do I; that shouldn't make a difference.

    >    31Aug88 From Ganelius
    >I more or less have the GNU C compiler installed under MT C Shell.  A major
    >problem though is the lack of the run time library.  

The runtime library is in GNULIB.ARC, available from all the usual
servers.
							  
							  The library source was
    >compiled with something other than the GNU compiler, apparently.  

That's wrong.  The library was compiled with the GNU 1.23.
								       Is a
    >compiled library available?  I ran into a couple of bugs in the compiler so
    >far.  The compiler driver does not recognize the command line options `-c' and
    >`-o'.  

That's also wrong.

	    Also most of its console output is missing carriage-returns. 

That's never happened to me.
    >  
    > Also, is a Unix compatible make utility available from GNU for the ST? 

I don't know how compatible it is with Eunuchs, but the GNU MAKE util is
in GNUUTILS.ARC.

    Since can't run it I can't be of much immediate assistance.  Does
    anyone here have suggestions?  My guess is the MT C shell does command
    line arguments differently than gulam (the shell used by the guy who
    did the port).  

Yes, I'd guess that's true, but it's still a bit mysterious how it could
get as confused as he describes.  Could it be that MT upcases command
lines before executing them?

I'd suggest he try it with gulam.  Get it working that way first, then
see what it takes to make it work with other CLI's.

		    Perhaps it also does environment variables differently.
    (so the compiler merely can't find the library file as opposed to being
    unable to read it?)

That's possible as well.  Still, from the text of his message, it sounds
like something didn't like the format of the OLB, not that it couldn't
find it.

I'm afraid more information is needed here.