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From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: gas for Sequent Symmetry?
Message-ID: <411@clover.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 23 Feb 90 15:24:28 GMT
References: <1026500002@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1026500002@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> daniel@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>I have been trying to get g++ running on a Sequent Symmetry.  When I
>went to compile libg++-1.36.3, I got an assembler error compiling
>builtin.cc so I installed gas (as /usr/local/lib/gcc-as).  The library
>then completely compiled with no problem but when ranlib looked at it,
>it complained:
> ranlib: libg++.a(AllocRing.o): old NS32000 format .o file
>How do I get gas to produce the correct .o file format?

It looks like AllocRing.o was compiled on a Sequent Balance machine,
rather than a Sequent Symmetry....
If you clean up the .o files and start again you may get lucky.....
Alternatively, mebbe you have gcc-as configured to produce Balance code?

Hope I haven't just been talking crud!
Hokay,
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