🚀 go-pugleaf

  Sigh.  Life is just too damn short for this.  A few more
questions for the intelligentsia.  The status so far (all
configured with "i386-sco3.2v4" on an SCO ODT 3.0 box):

  gas-2.1.1
  bison-1.21
  gcc-2.5.3	(previously 2.4.5)

1)  gcc was configured with "--with-gnu-as" to use the
   gnu assembler.  Later, when I come to build glibc, it
   "strongly recommends" I use the gnu linker "ld" as well.
   Where do I find this beast?  I'd happily incorporate it if
   I knew where to get it.  Is this a dumb question?
   
  make-3.68	(with a couple of hacks)
  glibc-1.06.2

  Problems with building glibc now.  First, there is a
"configparms" file that should be used to override allegedly
previously incompatible header files.  Lines of the following
form are supposed to be placed in the configparms file:

    override stddef.h =

  Previously, I had

    override stddef.h =
    override stdarg.h =

2)  Is this necessary any longer?  Which entries should I
   have in configparms given my releases of gcc-2.5.3 and
   glibc-1.06.2?

  Currently, I'm building glibc with "--with-gnu-as".
(Once I get the linker, I'll add "-with-gnu-ld" as well.)
But now, when I build glibc with gcc and gnu make, I get

    ../sysdeps/generic/atan.c:25: conflicting types for 'atan'
    ./math.h:60: previous declaration for 'atan'
    gmake[1]: *** [atan.o] Error 1

3) Why?  glibc built nicely using gcc-2.4.5.  Any hints?

  Many thanks to everyone who's been helping out.  It is
just a mite frustrating that, whenever I deal with one
problem, another seems to pop up.  Sigh.

R. Day : rpjday@cuug.ab.ca
Calgary Unix Users Group
Authorized SCO Instructor