🚀 go-pugleaf

    Sorry, Richard, but I had to make this question...

    A friend of mine had just bought the developer's edition of SCO Unix. But,
they made a mistake -- they sent no compiler! So my friend asked for it, and
they said they would ship it within the next 2 weeks. So he came and asked me,
"is there a way to get a good C compiler somewhere?". I started guessing, and
I imagined these steps:

    1. Getting the GCC sources.

    2. Build GCC in a {NeXT, RS/6000, VAX} system, to produce 386 code.
       (I couldn't decide, because my quota was running low ":= )
       This presents the main problem of guessing the kind of object files
	that SCO uses: a.out? Or some other?

    3. Rebuild GCC, now giving 386 code.

    4. Take a bunch of disks and move the binaries and sources to the 386.

    Is this picture realistic, or was I asking too much? Has anybody had success
doing this kind of tricks? What's the binaries format for SCO?

    BTW, my friend isn't fully satisfied with the "bundled" compiler, so he's
looking after alternate solutions.
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