ric@ace.sri.com (Richard Steinberger) (05/10/91)
In <366@nic.cerf.net> jonesm@nic.cerf.net (John Reading) writes: >I am a devotee of hopeless causes, so I am trying to compile the >MIT distribution of X 11R4 in order to end up with an X server on >an Alliant fx2800. My first attempts have met with failure because >the Alliant C preprocessor, scc0, doesn't paste tokens together in >the fashion expected by the X developers, and I end up with thousands >of compiler errors. The X documentation that comes with the release >says the gcc is the compiler of choice, so my question is... >Does anybody have gcc ported to (and producing code for :-)) the >intel i860 micro? Lacking that, does anybody have a preprocessor that >handles token pasting as required by the X sources? >Please respond by email, I will post a summary if there is sufficient >(any? :-)) response. >Thanks in advance, >John Reading I haven't heard of any GCC for the i860. (Come on Alliant, who's going to buy your boxes if important SW like GCC doesn't run on them?). Anyway, in the X dist, in one of the subdirectories, there is a C preprocessor. You might be able to use that. Then again, maybe the Alliant C compiler will barf on it. Good luck. -ric steinberger