| From: | Gabriele Svelto |
| Date: | 20 Aug 99 at 22:31:21 |
| Subject: | Re: Installing GCC |
From: Gabriele Svelto <jlpicard@tiscalinet.it>
Hi Ben
> 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.
>
Thanx for the tip, BTW I found a local Amiga dealer there which has the CD
so I can get it there, see ya!