andreess@mrlaxe.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) (04/25/91)
Archive-name: gnu/utils/rs6000-gnu-make/1991-04-24 Archive: export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/gmake-6000.tar.Z [18.30.0.238] Original-posting-by: andreess@mrlaxe.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) Original-subject: Re: Has anyone ported GNU-make to IBM RS-6000/AIX? Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) In article <JAE.91Apr24131258@pv031e.iastate.edu> jae@iastate.edu (Edwards John Andrew) writes: > The title says it all: Has anyone ported GNU-make to the IBM RS-6000 > running AIX? I ran into troubles with arscan.c (the format of AIX's .a > files appears to be somewhat alternative), but before I dig into it, I > figured I'd try the net to see if someone's already solved this. > >I have been wondering the same thing. Apparently, it is due to >be released with gcc-2.00, whenever that appears. I would like >very much to have it available because I also want G++ on this >box. Look on export.lcs.mit.edu, in contrib/gmake-6000.tar.Z. I ported it myself before seeing this; it really isn't that difficult to do yourself if you're willing to weed out the differences between what the distribution expects and what AIX provides. >Alas, there also may be a political problem arising with IBM and >lawsuits, so the AIX/RS6000 port may *never* be available from >FSF. Huh? This is new... the only problem I ever heard about was actually shipping Emacs with the system. Is there something else? (According to the FSF, GCC/G++ will support the RS/6000; also, Emacs 18.57 does right now...) Marc -- Marc Andreessen___________University of Illinois Materials Research Laboratory Internet: andreessen@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu____________Bitnet: andreessen@uiucmrl -- comp.archives file verification export.lcs.mit.edu -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp 30 348218 Nov 16 19:24 /contrib/gmake-6000.tar.Z found rs6000-gnu-make ok export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/gmake-6000.tar.Z