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In article <jae.663440395@pv031e.vincent.iastate.edu> jae@iastate.edu (Edwards John Andrew) writes:
   The point is that I installed  GCC  on our  HPUX system, and that
   went VERY smoothly.  I compiled all of the code for the software;
   after a little patching  up (mostly fixing prototypes), it worked
   quite well (better than the HPCC version).

   But,   alas, we really   should have  a  debugger  along with the
   compiler, and everyone  KNOWS  that   HPUX need  GAS to  make   a
   debugger, GDB, available (it seems  that GCC and the HP debugger,
   XDB, are ioncompatable).... So, ...

   I  thought I  should  install GAS.   This has   proved to  be   a
   nightmare!  I ftp'ed gas-1.37 from prep.ai.mit.edu and set out to
   compile just as I had originally for GCC (version 1.37.1).  To my
   surprise, there was   precious  little documentation  on   how to
   install the package (unlike GCC, which was very well documented).
   I  thought there would at least  be a texinfo file.  Undaunted, I
   followed  the  instructions,  and    proceeded to get    to work,
   compiling with the GCC I had.

   [ ... ]

   One problem was with the write.c stuff, which I assume was due to
   the fact that we have hp9000s300,  and the  write.c has some sort
   of conditional  based on it being hp9000s200.   I guess the a.out
   headers changed a little with the new system.  What it  meant was
   that the  EXEC_MACHINE_TYPE  was no longer  define'd, so one line
   was gone.  But I don't think that's the problem.

   Has anyone  else seen this  problem?  Have I made  some incorrect
   assumptions  while compiling?   Can I  use GDB without  compiling
   GAS?

OK, it is a few weeks since I posted this information the last time,
so here it is again: Most of the gnu-binaries for HPUX 9000/[34]00 are
available in a single archive file from golem.ps.uci.edu via anon-ftp.
This archive file contains completely working gcc/gas/gdb/g++/and
assorted other gnu tools. I've been using all of them for months and
years virtually without a glitch, so they should be pretty stable. But
a word of warning: The archive intentionally uses absolute path-names.
This means that all file are correctly unpacked in their directories
and installation is complete after "uncompress <gnubin.tar.Z | tar xf -".
This also means that you have to have root access on the system you
install these files on. I choose to do this as the path-names in which
these binaries search each other are compiled into the code and being
able to move them to other directories wouldn't be very useful. If you
have any problems installing this (or compiling any gnu tool under
HPUX 7.0) feel free to write to me, chances are I've encountered the
problem before.

About Gas 1.37, yes I had similar problems to you when I tried to
install it and gave up after a few hours. Fortunately version 1.36
(included in the archive) works just fine, and I know of no
significant advantage of 1.37, so I wouldn't worry about it.

        Carl Edman



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