hermit@devon.lns.pa.us (Mark Buda) (12/07/89)
I have some patches to make GNU CC work under SCO Xenix 386. I'm not sure what I should do with them. Karl Kleinpaste at OSU says he can probably make them available for anonymous FTP/UUCP. Is this sufficient? Should I post them? Where? alt.sources? comp.sources.misc? comp.unix.xenix? Should I ask for people who are willing to keep it in their archives until the changes are merged with the official GNU distribution, if they ever are? Have I wasted my time because somebody else has already done it? The patches are not fully tested, because I don't have enough RAM/swap space to compile all of gcc with itself using -O. Also, you can't use a symbolic debugger on gcc-produced executables (yet). What should I do? Mark Buda hermit@chessene.uucp / hermit%chessene.uucp@rutgers.edu devon.lns.pa.us!chessene!hermit / ...!rutgers!devon!chessene!hermit no wife, no horse, no mustache
ingea@IFI.UIO.NO (Inge Arnesen) (12/08/89)
>I have some patches to make GNU CC work under SCO Xenix 386. I'm not sure >what I should do with them. It depends on how large these patches are. I would suggest that you post them in gnu.gcc and if they are moderate in size ( < 30-50 K) you could crosspost them here. Make sure that followups go to gnu.gcc and not here. If they're big, I think anonymous FTP / UUCP would be a good idea, and maybe after a while, when the worst bugs are out, you could mail it to the GNU-project for them to make it a part of the GNU distribution. I'm a bit suprised that a GCC port is allready here, since I thought GCC was based on the AT&T assembler (not MASM) and that, even if adding GNU-assembler, wouldn't load with the XENIX loader (a object code format mismatch). If GCC can be made fairly stable on XENIX 386, I'm sure you will get a lot of friends around, since the compiler supplied by SCO is a real mess. Inge (BoB) { ingea@ifi.uio.no } ========================================================================= == Inge Arnesen, University of Oslo, Norway. == == ==