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From: slk@SUN.MCS.CLARKSON.EDU (Steve Knodle)
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Date: 16 Mar 89 20:47:46 GMT
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I just picked up g++-1.34.0 from prep.ai.mit.edu, and was confused
reading the installation instructions.  I seem to be gravely
misunderstanding something.  Target machine is a sun3 running OS 4.0.1
I previously brought gcc-1.32 up on a VAX 750 running XINU 4.3

My observations are interspersed below:

|The code for GNU C++ is in the directory dist-g++/, and the code for
|making GDB+ is in the directory dist-gdb+/.  Here is how to install
|GNU C++:

After untarring, my src was in src-g++, not dist-g++.
I renamed src-g++ to conform to your instructions.

|(1) Make a directory g++/ and cd into it
|
|	install% mkdir g++
|	install% cd g++
|
|(2) Run make on the "maketest" target.  If your directory structure is
|    as described here, you need not give any additional arguments.
|    Otherwise, you must set DIR to the directory which contains GNU CC
|    sources, and TDIR to the directory which contains GNU CC object
|    files.

At this point, g++ has no makefile, and my "make" searches nowhere else.
I ran "make maketest" in dist-g++ instead.

|(3) Configure the compiler for the machine target you want.  This is
|    accomplished by running the program "config.g++".  For example, on
|    a Sun4 running SunOS 4.0, you would type:
|
|	install% config.g++ sun4-os4

I have no "config.g++", but did have a "config.gcc".
I ran it.

|Now, You should be in the directory g++/:
|
|	install% pwd
|	install% ./g++

I have nothing executable named "g++" in this directory.

|*Very Important*: Because GNU C++ now uses 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.  Then, just type `make'.  If you are not using a SUN, you
|will need to use the appropriate machine dependent files, as per GNU
|CC.  If you do not provide a proper crt0.c, any executable produced
|by GNU C++ may fail to run at all.  Conversely, if you have a program
|which does not make it as far as the first line in main (), you have
|probably failed to provide the correct flags to crt0.c.

I ran "make" in dist-g++, and got an error message regarding
not finding "../test-g++" files.

Please tell me what I did wrong!