🚀 go-pugleaf

Howdy all. I have been programming in C and FORTRAN many years and
never used a debugger. Just a weird quirk, because I've used it with
great appreciation programming Clipper on a PC for a year or so.
Anyway, I've decided to take the plunge and use gdb on my C programs.

Problem is, I'm on a HP 730, running HPUX 9.01. I've got gcc-2.5.2
but when I try to compile anything with the -g option, I get a message
that the -g option is not supported by gcc. Later I learned (somewhere
on the net) that HP's mumble mumble format was until recently,
proprietary, and therefore not supported by gcc (sorry, I forgot the
exact details). But I also heard this problem would go away if I used
GNU's assembler, gas. Then (I presume) I would rebuild gcc using gas
and the -g option would work. But I also seem to remember there was
something else I need to install. 

(I'm hazy on so many details because I read this information before it
occured to me to try and get gdb working on my C programs).

If anyone out there could offer a few lines of guidence, it would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks.