thakur@ZERKALO.HARVARD.EDU (Manavendra K. Thakur) (11/27/89)
Hi everyone,
Many many thanks to the people who responded to my long plea for help
in installing g++ and libg++.a on a Sun 3 running 4.0.3.
With the help I received, I was able to successfully install the
compiler and library.
The bulk of my problems were arising because I wasn't using the Gnu
assembler. Also, the discrepancies between the Makefiles, README, and
the texinfo files were confusing.
But I learned the correct way to install software, and I also learned
how to modify g++'s gcc.c file so that g++ would use an alternate name
for the Gnu ld. This way, g++ can use the Gnu ld it needs, but gcc
and cc can continue using Sun's ld, which has the advantage of
supporting dynamic linking.
Thanks to:
Doug Lea <dl@g.oswego.edu>
Stephen C. Pope <scp@sfi.santafe.edu>
Michael Helm <mike@grainne.lbl.gov>
As well as anyone else out there whose mail I might not have received.
Manavendra K. Thakur
System Manager, High Energy Division
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophyics
thakur@zerkalo.harvard.edu
thakur@cfa.harvard.edu