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Subject: Getting Started

We have an interest in using some of the existing GNU tools in their own 
right and in developing small amounts of C code for use as command line tools
with our 4GL applications development (especially m4, which we use heavily).
The GNU tools are particularly attractive in this regard because of the 
potential portability across a substantial number of platforms since the 
Progress 4GL is itself so portable.  I have downloaded a number of current
source archives, but seem to be having a lot of trouble getting started 
because of what appear to be catch 22 issues, i.e., I can't install product
A until I install product B, but I need product A to install product B.
It would appear that a part of my problem is that our primary development
platform is a m88k-motorola-sysv3 box which is not exactly the first port
that people tend to do.  There is some indication that I may have to
"bootstrap" by porting an earlier gcc first and then use it to build
the new gcc and everything else, which I am willing to do, but I would 
greatly prefer to not to just randomly poke around looking for something 
that works.  The products of immediate concern are gcc, glib, gcc, make,
and bison, of which I have only managed to succeed with make.  gzip is
also working, but even hello won't compile.