Amiga Developers Environment V1: Geek Gadgets

Information in this page updated: 06 Dec 96


Review fill follow shortly
Distributor:
Stefan Ossowskis Schatztruhe
Suggested retail price:
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Known bugs:
Look at the end of this document

Amiga Developers Environment V1: Geek Gadgets

Geek Gadgets(tm) contains the Amiga Developer Environment (ADE), a project organized by Cronus to produce and support Amiga parts of dozens of the most popular development tools and utilities from the Free Software Foundation, BSD, and other sources.

This CD contains virtually all the tools you need to get started programming on the Amiga, including advanced C, C++, Fortran, and ADA compilers, assembler, linker, EMACS editor, 'make', source code control system (rcs & cvs), text and file utilities , GNU debugger, text formatters (groff & TeX), and more. Also included are beta test versions of ports in progress, like a port of the X Window System (X16.1).

Everything comes with complete source code and all the binaries have been compiled from the supplied sources. All tools on the Geek Gadgets CD can be run directly from the CD-ROM, without the need to install any files on your hard drive.


Above text was taken from the backside and/or the leaflet following the CD-ROM.

Known bugs in the CD

Following message was grabbed from the usenet comp.sys.amiga.programmer:
From: Fred Fish 
Subject: Geek Gadgets INSTALL script
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 96 19:13:00
Message-ID: <57f8et$4f6@toadfish.ninemoons.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Organization: A Red Hat Linux Site
NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.247.33.11

We've just discovered, thanks to feedback from a couple of people,
that libnix does not get installed from the CD when you run the
installer in expert or intermediate mode and it allows you to select
specific packages.  This is because a text prompt is three lines
instead of two, which causes the installer to only display 7 of the 8
available packages.  It does not provide any indication that there is
a problem laying out the selection window; it just silently throws
away the last selection.

The easiest workaround is to simply install libnix by hand.  The
archive is in the ADE-alpha directory and can just be extracted
directly into the ADE: directory.  Don't use the one from ADE-dist,
since it was not compiled with the latest compiler included on the CD.

A fixed INSTALL script will be available shortly.

-Fred

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