brant@manta.pha.pa.us (Brant Cheikes) (09/16/88)
With the exception of Gnu Emacs, I've been ignoring what's been happening on the GNU program development utilities (GPDU) front, since it has been my impression that everything was under development and highly unstable. Now I hear that GCC (as of 1.28) is reaching stability, so I'd like to know what the status is w/r/t the UNIXpc of all the GPDUs. Apparently you can get GCC 1.28 from prep.ai.mit.edu with all the necessary UNIXpc config files. sdb support is in there and working, right? What about gas- the assembler? gld- the loader? gdb? g++? Gmake is still BSD dependent, right? Others? (I know about bison and gawk) Anyway, would someone with current and reliable information please take a few moments to tell us what GPDUs work, how they compare in performance to what we got from AT&T, and any other facts they consider germane? As far as Emacs is concerned, current version is 18.52. There will be no further releases until V19, due (according to Len Tower, tower@bu-cs) in 6-9 months. THANKS^3 Brant -- Brant Cheikes University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Internet: brant@manta.pha.pa.us, UUCP: bpa!manta!brant