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As requested by people on the net I'm forwarding my post to the buglist...

In article <1992Aug19.152652.11529@ennews.eas.asu.edu>, scowen@wfpc3.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Paul A. Scowen) writes:
|> Hello,
|> 
|> I'm writing to request any words of wisdom from people who've attempted to
|> build the pl16 R5 distribution on Unix platforms using gcc-2.2.2.
|> 
|> I have attempted to do this using the compiler built on a DS 5000/25, and
|> on the whole it has been successful.  By the way, if the MIT people are reading
|> there a needed change to the ultrix.cf file - a line that undefines the 
|> PexCCOptions if Gcc is defined - otherwise a whole chunk of PEX stuff does
|> not get built.
|> 
|> Anyway, the build goes ok until the mfb part of the server/ddx tree is reached
|> when a whole series of errors like this happen:
|> 
|> as0: Error: mfbfillsp.c, line 771: undefined assembler operation: extzv
|> 	extzv $2,$8,0($9),$5
|> 
|> now while this may be a gcc error, it also has implications for the R5 
|> build as a whole since gcc is the recommended compiler, from the README's
|> I've read.  The result of these errors (not surprisingly) is a failure to
|> build the ./server/ddx/mfb part of the server code, which causes a premature
|> exit from the make as follows:
|> 
|> making all in ./server/.././fonts/lib/font...
|> making all in ./fonts/lib/font/bitmap...
|> making all in ./fonts/lib/font/fontfile...
|> making all in ./fonts/lib/font/fc...
|> making all in ./fonts/lib/font/Speedo...
|> making all in ./fonts/lib/font/util...
|> making all in ./server/.././extensions/server...
|> making all in ./extensions/server/PEX...
|> making all in ./extensions/server/PEX/dipex/dispatch...
|> making all in ./extensions/server/PEX/dipex/swap...
|> making all in ./extensions/server/PEX/dipex/objects...
|> making all in ./extensions/server/PEX/ddpex/mi/level1...
|> making all in ./extensions/server/PEX/ddpex/mi/level2...
|> making all in ./extensions/server/PEX/ddpex/mi/level3...
|> making all in ./extensions/server/PEX/ddpex/mi/level4...
|> making all in ./extensions/server/PEX/ddpex/mi/shared...
|> making all in ./extensions/server/PEX/ospex...
|> Make:  Don't know how to make ddx/mfb/libmfb.a.  Stop.
|> *** Error code 1
|> `all' not remade because of errors
|> 
|> Any words of sage advice out there?  Thanks.

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