worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) (06/08/90)
Well, now that we are staring down the barrel of converting to Sys V (ick), does anybody out there know how the Gnu tools fare? I think that Emacs shouldn't have any problems, but what about GDB? Has it been converted for the new object format (ELF)? Or looking at solving the problem another way, does anybody have a complete list of the vendors that supply BSD based Unixes? The only one I can think of is Dec. Dale Worley Compass, Inc. worley@compass.com
bob@morningstar.com (06/09/90)
| From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) | | ...does anybody out there know how the Gnu tools fare? I think that | Emacs shouldn't have any problems, but what about GDB? Has it been | converted for the new object format (ELF)? There's been some discussion on these topics on (surprise!) the GNU mailing lists/gnu.* newsgroups. Emacs requires a change to where it gets alloca() and a couple of other things, and last I saw, gdb needs some more work. | ...does anybody have a complete list of the vendors that supply BSD | based Unixes? To get The One True And Pure BSD, talk to MtXinu at 415-644-0146. They're marketing Mach now too, though the current version doesn't run on SPARC.
greg@uunet.uu.net (Greg Onufer) (06/09/90)
worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) writes: >Well, now that we are staring down the barrel of converting to Sys V >(ick), does anybody out there know how the Gnu tools fare? I think that >Emacs shouldn't have any problems, but what about GDB? Has it been >converted for the new object format (ELF)? I think a good question would be "Will a S5R4-based Sun Operating System maintain binary compatibility with SunOS 4.x?" That would be a temporary cure for any problems. Cheers!greg
baur@venice.sedd.trw.com (Steven L. Baur) (06/11/90)
From article <8677@brazos.Rice.edu>, by worley@compass.com (Dale Worley): > Well, now that we are staring down the barrel of converting to Sys V > (ick), does anybody out there know how the Gnu tools fare? GDB definitely loses, or at least the version I am using (3.2). I haven't recompiled gcc yet under 4.1. That should be O.K. though since it hands things off to the local assembler. The other GNU tools with the exception of g++ ought to be O.K. too. G++ may work too, but I have not tried it, and I know that until recently it would not work with COFF. Steve baur@romulus.SEDD.TRW.COM
guy@uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris) (06/13/90)
>G++ may work too, but I have not tried it, and I know that until >recently it would not work with COFF. Uhh, folks, SunOS 4.1 doesn't use COFF; the only SunOS 4.x's that *do* use COFF are the ones on the 386i. Sun's S5R4 release's primary object file/executable/sharable object file format will be - not surprisingly, since it's S5R4 - ELF.