| From: | Ben Hutchings |
| Date: | 20 Aug 99 at 01:07:20 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Installing GCC |
From: Ben Hutchings <womble@zzumbouk.demon.co.uk>
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 10:16:13AM +1000, Jonathan Adamczewski wrote:
> From: Jonathan Adamczewski <jadamcze@utas.edu.au>
>
> On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Gabriele Svelto wrote:
>
> > From: Gabriele Svelto <jlpicard@tiscalinet.it>
> >
> > Hi Ben
> >
> > > From: Ben Hutchings <womble@zzumbouk.demon.co.uk>
> > >
> > > On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 11:41:24PM +0100, Gabriele Svelto wrote:
> > >> From: Gabriele Svelto <jlpicard@tiscalinet.it>
> > >>
> > >> Hello everybody,
> > >> I know this mail will sound stupid to the most of you but I need help on
> > >> installing GCC, it's a week now I'm fighting with it! I followed exactly
> > >> all the instructions provided but once I run the gcc command a requester
> > >> pops up claiming about some bizare ssystem() function...
> > >
> > > Did you get it from Aminet or from Ninemoons/Cronus? The version on
> > > Aminet is old and broken.
> >
> > I got it from the Aminet Dev CD from Epic Marketing (it contains all the
> > dev archives of Aminet, very usefull and no time spent for downloads), so
> > it comes obviously form Aminet. I tried browsing Ninemoons in ftp but
> > panicked a bit 'cos there are plenty of dirs with the same name... from
> > where should I get it exactly?
>
> Point your ftpclient at
> ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/geekgadgets/amiga/m68k/snapshots/current/bin/
>
> The files you want should come from there. (I'm talkin egcs here cos it's
> better thatn gcc) You will need more than just the egcs package though -
> the BOOT.lha file in the parent dir will let you unpack the tgz, and you
> will need ixemul and some other packages would be useful as well (make,
> pdksh, fileutils, shutils, binutils and just about everything else ;)
/pub/geekgadgets/amiga/m68k/snapshots/980523/ might be better, as
some recent changes have broken a number of packages. The README
file in this directory includes a list of the necessary packages for
C/C++ development.
It may be easier to buy the Geek Gadgets 3 CD-ROM instead. (See
http://www.ninemoons.com.) I think this has the latest (990529)
snapshot.