idall@augean.OZ (Ian Dall) (03/23/90)
This is the README file describing the patches I have made available for
anonymous ftp.
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GCC, GDB, GAS and GLD for the ICM3216
This directory contains patch files to make GCC, GDB, GAS and GLD work
for the ICM3216. Some of the changes are to get around operating
system peculiarities and others are enhancements. The patches enable
building either native coff format executables or the FSF's
coff-encapsulated-a.out format executables.
RMS has said that he is not interested in maintaining seperate
configurations for "obscure" computers --- by implication the icm3216
is obscure :-). He will accept fixes which are generic to all 32k
systems, but as I don't have an Encore and a Sequent, I sometimes have
difficulty convincing him that my enhancements *are* generic. Also,
even when RMS *has* accepted something as a good idea, *and* I've
signed over the copyright as requested, it *still* seems to be no
guarantee that it will actually get into the distribution. I have no
idea why that is. Maybe somethings just get lost? Anyway, for all
those reasons, I am maintaining this archive for Ns32k users. These
changes may or may not make it into future FSF distributions.
I welcome corrections/bug reports.
Applicability to non ICM3216, Ns32k systems.
The icm3216 is a fairly basic (but very functional) machine based on
the ns32016 cpu. The patches here are all for the NS Sys V.2.2
operating system although many of the changes are more widely
applicable. In particular, if you are using GAS and GLD, there should
be very little which would need to be changed to run on a BSD system.
How to Get
The follwowing files are available in the gnu/ns32k directory of the
public area on augean.ua.oz.au:
README: This file
INSTALL.Z Details on how to apply the patches, configure and make the
programs.
gcc.1.37.1.patch.Z
Compressed patches for gcc 1.37.1
gdb.1.35.patch.Z
Compressed patches for gdb 1.35
gas.1.35.patch.Z
Compressed patches for gas 1.35
binutils.patch.Z
Compressed patches for the GNU binutils package, including
the loader and robotussin.
They are accessable by anonymous ftp to augean.ua.oz.au.
ACSnet users can fetchfile from augean.ua.oz. Eg
"fetchfile -daugean.ua.oz gnu/ns32k/README"
should get you this file.
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