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In article <1992Nov20.234315.5743@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes:

[... comments on installing GNU code ...]

I've been installing GNU code on my machine at home and at work for the
past 3 years, if anything ( imho ) the GNU code has gotten *much* easier
to install on the systems I  work on.  These systems are not your state of
the art equipment either.  These are old SystemV.2 Plexus 680X0 platforms.

Granted I didn't use cpio 1.x (x>1) cause it would never run right (  2.x does
), and I had to edit tar1.0X code to get it to run on the Plexus, but now,
Configure does all the work and I make a tweak to the Makefiles and off it
runs.  And that goes for nearly every GNU package out threre (  well at least
those in a Plain Jane SysV environment ).

Granted it took awhile to get gcc going, but that was working around a
compiler that would create code that would crash our systems, and getting
a real assembler going.  At least now I have a real C/C++ compier for my
antique. ( ie. puts out better code that the compiler use to originally
bootstrap gcc ).

Just my .02

-randy

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