| From: | Gregory Roberts II |
| Date: | 13 Aug 2001 at 15:17:44 |
| Subject: | Re: [amiga-c] Re: Getting GCC to work on Amiga |
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, MACLEAN,RODERICK (A-Scotland,ex1) wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 AD, Gregory Roberts II wrote:
>
> [GCC]
>
> > Someone should really get rid of the version that sits on
> > Aminet. It is very old and out of date.
> > Try http://www.geekgadgets.org/ for the latest goodies.
>
> I have seen this mentioned a lot of times. I do not use GCC,
> otherwise I would do something about it myself for the benefit
> of beginners. I don't know enough about which archives are
> required etc.
The same is true for me to some extent. I never got a copy from Aminet,
so I don't really even know what's up there. I just know it's old! :-)
>
> Someone could download the archives from geekgadgets and
> upload to them to Aminet with a readme (detailing which
> archives are to be replaced by the new ones). That way
> all the beginners will get the correct archives...
>
My understanding of the problem is that Aminet wants all archives in a
standard format (.lha) and the GG archives are not in that format, nor can
they be as lha does not preserve file links.
I suppose one could run lha on the .tgz files, but that seems a little
silly to me. The other problem is that this would have to be done every
time there is an update, or you have exactly the same situation. Maybe
the ideal solution would be to get the files removed and put a
HowToGetGCC.text in place of them.
> Any takers..?
I'm doing good to find time to write this e-mail..... :-(
Greg
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